Pondicherry holiday

At the end of April we packed the family up and headed south to Tamil Nadu and the city of Chennai. Chennai was just a pit stop before heading down the highway to Pondicherry. The road to Pondi was fairly good but our driver was a complete lunatic! As a result Sophie threw up all over the backseat, herself and her parents.Her father, for some odd reason, had brought along a plastic bag - genius - so an easy clean up and we continued on our way.

2 hours later we arrived at the Dune Hotel, a lovely villa based eco hotel about 15km north of Pondi. Dunes was cool. We were shown to our villa that had its own pool and immediately relaxed. The only way to get around the Dune is on bicycles which was lovely and gave a very relaxed Rottnest vibe to the place.

On the Sunday morning we ventured into Pondi city and had a little wander around.... on the way in to town I did let my mind wander to french baguettes and wide boulevardes however we were obviously still in India so the French influence was limited to some older style french buildings damaged by years of heat and monsoon rains, but it still had some charm.  It was also crazy crazy hot so after about 90 minutes of walking we called it a day and headed back to the private pool and a nimbu pane.

The weather in Pondicherry suited alot of lazing, reading, sleeping and swimming so we stuck to these core activities and we were fine. One of the nicest things was sitting outside on our little deck, getting room service sharing a bottle of wine and staring at the many many stars that we hadn't seen for awhile.........