Pondicherry Travel Blogs, Travelogues and Travel Journals

Throughout my week in Pondicherry I spent time with my colleague Sabita’s family: Her sister Jyotsna, another sister whose name I embarrassingly never learned how to spell or say, that sister’s children (Abhijit, Pinky, and Apun), their close friend Joy, and various neighbors.  I love just hanging out with people, doing whatever they’d be doing normally.  One afternoon we all camped out on the floor in the one air-conditioned room in Joy’s apartment and watched a movie. …

In the morning we walked across the street to the Sai Baba temple, and meditated again.  Meditation started becoming and theme, and I was glad Kelsey was into it. I still feel a bit uncomfortable dropping the “Hey, you know what would be fun, lets go meditate for an hour” bomb on people.  So no bomb dropped, she was into it.   Then, we boarded the bus on to Pondicherry.  It was a commuter buss, packed with people, but we got the seat in the back.  Cru…

Hey dudes, so we're off again...but this time it's special, it's not just a holiday, it's our honeymoon !!! We're starting in India and hoping to take in Asia, Australasia, the Pacific and South America. We've got 9 months of madness so we better get crackin. Tune if you wanna keep up to date with where we are, write us a message or are just plain nosey!!! Lots of love Mr and Mrs Breeze

In January I'll be traveling to India to work as a volunteer with Habitat for Humanity, building houses alongside people who need a decent, affordable place to live.My team is really interesting, full of young people, from different countries, ethnical and religeous backgrounds. At this point we are still working on raising funds for our trip.If you wan't to participate, help my team, donate to Habitat, or learn more, visit my site:http://www.habitat.org/cd/gv/participant/participant.aspx?…

Travels during my summer internship in India!

After the totally depressing Chennai and the suprisingly disappointing Mamallapuram we allowed our optimism to build up our hopes for Pondicherry. The bus journey from Mamallapuram was relatively uneventful, the usual rickety decrepid bus, crazy driver sounding the ultra loud horn every few seconds and stares from Indians along the way. Arriving it was searingly hot and after the usual attempts by the autorickshaw drivers to rob us we negotiated down to a reasonable price and headed for our c…

  I was excited about coming to Pondicherry to see the French colonial architecture and learn about the famous Sri Aurobindo Ashram.  I figured that I’d end up staying here for some time to enjoy what was rumoured to be a lovely city.  It’s a lovely city, but unless you’re actually participating in ashram life, there isn’t much else to do here.  Except bleed money.    Several guesthouses I checked when I got into town were not only full, but some wer…

Trip to Pondicherry

This is my trip around India an threw South East Asia, an onward to Aus an NZ

On the 2nd of August 2008 Kira and I celebrated our marriage with lots of friends,and soon we'll be setting off, overland and water, back to Australia.

Adventures in India from two first-time travellers - how will we get on?

i've finally managed to escape the oh-so-fascinating world of hedge fund finance, and am now decadently indulging my long-suppressed wanderlust with 15 months on the road and around the world... *note: apart from the odd review (generally of something not found in your standard guide book), this is really more just a map of my travels than a proper blog, but if you want more information on anywhere i`ve been or what i`ve been up to, send me a message and i`ll see if i can rustle something up.

Un rêve...

Pondering in Pondicherry