Puducherry, India
Mary Murphy
March 26, 2026
I’d confused Pontchartrain with Pondicherry. Easily done. One is in Louisiana, USA, and the other is in India. As I said, easily done. To confuse
I’d confused Pontchartrain with Pondicherry. Easily done. One is in Louisiana, USA, and the other is in India. As I said, easily done. To confuse
Oh, yes, I thought, as I saw yet another woman of my age or older cruising around on their motorbike. I could live here. In
Mamallapuram (Mahabalipuram), a port city some 60 km south of Chennai, wasn’t on my list of places to see in that I’d never heard of
I’d been looking forward to our three days in Jaipur, mainly because of Judi Dench and Maggie Smith and the Best Exotic Marigold Hotel. As
Having done as much as we could in Fort Kochi, we headed across the water by ferry to see what the greater Ernakulam district had
When we left Munnar, we headed towards the coast to the city of Kochi (formerly Cochin). On our way, we passed through the rubber plantations
On our way from Ooty in Tamil Nadu to Munnar in Kerala, we stopped off in Coimbatore to pick up a passenger. Our friend SJ
Having made our way through the Wellington Cantonment, we headed towards Coonoor. Like Ooty, it, too, is a hill station, popularised by the sweltering British
I’ve long had a fascination for military bases. There’s something about a community of people working together for a shared cause, in a shared community,
Ever since we started talking about visiting India, I’d been looking forward to seeing the hill stations, those mountain towns where the British retreated to,
