Tamil Nadu Part 4 – Puducherry
Our next destination was Puducherry (previously Pondicherry, fondly known as Pondy), the former capital of French India.
Pondy is as cluttered and chaotic as any Tamil Nadu town, but the compact centre is tangibly more Gallic. The bazaars give way to leafy boulevards , mansions and rows of houses whose shuttered windows, ornate balconies and colour-washed facades would not look out of place in Montpellier – even the Starbucks!
On our way to our next destination we visited the…