Hotel Le Garden Kumbakonam

... to have on hand. As a result, he was about to produce more, sell more and employee more workers!

We visited another younger women who sells general goods like food, drinks & fruit. I took the opportunity to buy some 'cold' soda from her as it was getting hot. It was great! She is looking to expand her business footprint with her next loan!

The last two places we visited were snack ...

... br>The school covers some serious restate. There is the main school building which has two floors. Then there is the Manpower Training Centre where adults can come and learn any number of valuable skills/trades so they can make a living. The school has a detached bathroom house, basketball court and playground.

... for many years! Truly, these people were honored to have us visit them. They had big smiles on their faces and wanted to know our names. When you think of a poor community in the US and visit one, you usually don't find smiling faces who want to invite you in. Usually you find people who are upset and angry at life and the government for dealing them a bad lot. I know we can ...

... about Auroville you can always Google it.... but if you want to understand why I the couldn't get a firm grasp on it... check out their explanations. The flowery language just confuses me! "Auroville wants to be a universal town where men and women of all countries are able to live in peace and progressive harmony above all creeds, all politics and all nationalities. The purpose of Auroville is to ...

... the safe and so put it in my camera bag so it wouldn't get sand in it. Went for a 45min walk on the beach (obviously swinging the camera bag) and lost the bloody watch. Realised immediately on return and spent from 4pm to nightfall combing the beach. 2 teenage boys had approached us on the return leg of the walk and said something in Tamil but as we didn't understand we just shrugged and moved on. Later I became obssesed they were asking us did we lose a watch but we ...

I made a rash decision to go to Auroville, we were on the tour and i cut it short with Asir and James to stay in Auroville. We got a room and had a nice meal in the evening of Dosai. We chatted with an 'Aurovillian' for a while quizing him on exactly what goes on in the place. They have a money less society, they all obide by the one law, they all work for a wage in money and credits, they represent most countrys throughout the world and ...

In the morning we said goodbye to vinoth and Tamil, gave them a CD with Belgium/German music that we made for all our hosts, left for Kumbakonam, and checked into an hotel for 3 days. It would be nice to have some time for ourselves, to get some laundry done and visit Chola temples. Kumbakonam is famous for Chola temples, very different from the ...

... which is not a sect but the name of a chain of sweet shops that also do quick lunches. Then we had a siesta (something Vinoth had never heard of) and we also went on a small backwater tour with a pedalo :) We didn't even have to paddle or cycle as vinoth and his friend were in front. They showed us the nests of crabs and it was lovely on the river. When we came back to Pondi it started raining and in less than 2 minutes the whole ...

... wagon. She continued the movement he started and created a place called Auroville, an international town with over 1000 inhabitants all showing us how to be the perfect community and how everyone should be equal. They belive that everyone should be treated the same and race, creed skin colour and all that are not relevant. However, what they don't tell you on the information book is how backward this philosophy is: if you want to join the town you have to ...

... we ate at several other french restaurants, like Rendezvous, a cool rooftop place with a thatch roof and french decor. What a weird thing to eat quiche sitting under a roof made of palm leaves beside the Indian ocean. :) The nights I stayed at Hotel Qualité, I usually hung out at the bar for a few minutes before going to bed. Besides the unclean room at the hotel, the bar downstairs was the greatest curse, and blessing at the same time. On the first night I went there ...