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Hi guys!
Finally I arrived safe in India with this Air arabia company : no problem at all except that I had to wait 14 hours in Sharjah full of locals with small hats and barb. They were lying on one floor covered with a carpet. I slept there, surrounded by them, on my yoga mat to kill time : it was the only place to sleep, anyway and they didn't disturb me at all, they didn't even give me a look I think !
I am in Pondichery since Tuesday. It is very hot and it takes time to get used to. I feel better today, then again it rained yesterday which cleaned the sky and refreshed the air a bit. Today the weather is nice with wind.
It's good to start with Pondichery : this place is completely out of the time, it's not even India here, especially in what they call here the “the white city” (after crossing the canal to the beach side. Before this, is “the black city” and here it's still India, believe me!). Most of the buildings in the white area belong to Sri Aurobindo's ashram, so they maintain everything in order : streets are large, clean and quiet (it's quiet unusual for those who know India). There are trees, flowers everywhere, it smells of incense or jasmine all around. And also many things around belong to the past , to the time of colonialism (french one) like names of streets : “Rue Debussy, Rue de Suffren, Rue Dumas…”, houses and furniture are in colonial style, policemen wearing the uniform of this time, people cycling almost 80 years old bicycles (I have also one, a little heavy and slow but it's ok)…So, here it's the right place to take rest, which i do! Yoga in the morning, on the teras of the guest house( for the sun rise in front of the beach, with coconut trees and already the smells of curries, spices coming out from the small huts down in the street… : I feel sorry to say that i don't miss cihangir yoga studio after this !) and then breakfast of local and seasonal fruits : papaya, mango, watermelon, chikku, jackfruit…and then detox with mud, anema, massage,steam bath and then beach, reading, lunch, nap, juices, visit to my friends, cycling slowly in the city under the shadow of these huge cashewnut trees and then yoga again…yes nothing more, just cool and enjoying activities…
After 2 years without visiting this country, now I am full opened to be filled again by the various smells, colours, energies of this Mother India. I appreciate every moment as much as I can.
So, as you see, I have quiet a hard time now !
I leave you now, it 's time for dinner and to have a masala dosa or an utthappam and a mango lassi…
take care.
Kisses,
Flo
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