Started the morning at a chai stall then wondered around. Saw a temple with a painted sad looking elephant outside. Looked around the Sri Aurobindo ashram - the grounds were full of beautiful flowers and loads of pilgrims queuing up to worship the tomb of the founders. Walked along the promenade looked at the sea. The streets and buildings do feel very French, the street names are all in French, the policemen wear old style French uniforms and there are lots of pastries available! Although I’m sure the architect who designed things like the canal probably didn’t envisage the rubbish and the stink coming from it!
Was thinking that India is “decorated” with flowers, cows (although not here) and flowers.
We went in a small supermarket for the first time since I can remember (I love supermarkets) it had a variety of normal stuff and also sold babybell imported from France (750rps) and vache qui rie imported from Egypt bizarly (I like seeing where stuff is from).
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