Pondicherry finally!!
Hello folks, I am back after a long time with yet another travel article. I love to travel and write on the journeys though most of the time what I do is armchair travel which means I watch lot of travel shows. Forget Pondicherry. There are lot of places around us waiting to be explored which we may miss out seeing in our lifetime. For me, during my school days, the erstwhile French colonies meant Pondicherry, Mahe, Yanam. Pondicherry or Pudhucherry was in my bucket list and it was so near yet looked far off. We had been to Chennai from our childhood times but never to this quaint little place. We had to go to Chennai for an event last month and after that, we headed to Pondicherry which was a smooth 138 km drive on ECR road or East Coast Road from Besant Nagar. It is a very scenic drive with small towns and greenery all the way. On suggestion of our nephew, we booked a room in Gratitude Heritage homestay which was housed in an attractive 200 year old Fr