Our Indian travels continue, moving southwards from Chennai to the lovely former French colony of Puducherry. Following almost 300 years of French rule, Puducherry was only transferred back to Indian control in the mid-20th century. Today, it retains much of its European heritage. This is being strengthened due to a great deal of restoration work underway in the French Quarter. […]
Month: May 2025
A Short Visit to Chennai
Chennai, the capital of the state of Tamil Nadu, lies a few hundred kilometres to the south of Kolkata. After the mayhem of the three days we spent there, we hoped for a more relaxed time. We found that the Chennai is still a quintessentially Indian metropolis, but quite as chaotic as its northern neighbour. Click on the photo to […]
Three Days in Kolkata, the City of Joy
The next stage of our journey after the Himalayas was in the old British Colonial capital of Kolkata, formerly known as Calcutta. We expected one of the big capital cities in India to present a different experience to that of the previous week, but we weren’t quite prepared for just how different. We had visited Delhi and Mumbai on previous […]