..Who said a bumpy ride..

It is 7.30 and its saturday, on this trip to india there is no time to waste, we are staying busy, staying active,  maximizing every hour of your here, a fast breakfast (this time a portion of coco-rings with milk,serves as a nice change..) And we are off. We are sitting in a minibus the whole team (I'm with jana, dilminder, ralph,joel, bas, christian,fred and quynh the others has uped for a bit more luxurious transport, a  toyota..) We are of to the former french capital city of "puducherry" which was founded in 1674 by the director of the french east india company - Francois martin, and it is like chennai locate on the coast line of the bengal sea.. There are a ton of things to see there, good that we are able to get some advices from the many travelers books, the team had brought, so I guess I will want to see "church of our lady of the angels" build in 1865, the status of mahatma gandhi, the government square, "raj nivas", "aurobindo ashram", the "manakula vinayakar temple", the church of the sacred heart of Jesus and of course get a glance of the sea front from "goubert salai" the boulevard, oh and these things are only things to see in Puducherry - not to mention all of surrounding wonders..one interesting thing to mention is that Puducherri or Pondicherry, is that this for a long time was the homeplace of Sri Aurobindo Ghose, a famous bengali poet - philosopher, that took refugee there as he was trying to escape the british impire (he had so pretty strong views and was fighting for the freedom of india in the 1900s) in puducherri he became very drawn into the "spiritual" realms, and he became a schoolar of and popularized the principles of yoga. one of his disciple "Mirra alfassa" was later known as the "the mother". She was so taken by aurobindo that she after a brief visit with her husband during I world war, decide to move to puducherri, she was a woman of mystic, paint and music and she later became the cornerstone in the establishment of aurobindo ashram (which as mentioned we will go and see) - even today this "serene" ashram will host meditation sessions as done in the past.. (I might just go and participate..) Okay, enough writing I'll leave you for a minute or so to see us leave chennai behind and enter of what looks to be a very interesting and exciting weekend trip... I will keep you updated.. First stop auroville..