Entry by Linda Shepard
Roma and Margaret set off on Friday afternoon to visit friends outside Chennai. The rest of us (Rosanna, Ruth and I were off at 7:30 am on our first excursion, accompanied and guided by Stephen.
Our first stop was the magnificent piles of carved stone, the temples of Kanchipuram, that date from the 8th century. Stephen was able to help us appreciate the beauty and symbolism of these still vibrant places of devotion.
Kanchipuram is famous also as a silk-weaving center. We stopped at one of the scores of silk shops to admire and pick up a few small things.
After several hours of driving through sometimes too exciting traffic, we arrived in Pondicherry. Stephen and the others went for a walk through the French colonial town and along the beachfront of the Bay of Bengal, then had dinner at a French restaurant. I stayed in the hotel room with a mangled toe and watched a melodramatic Tamil TV soap opera, in which the actors yelled, cried, and smacked each other around something fierce.
Thought for the day: Where is Ganesh when you need him?
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