28th October 2010

Back in France...what a journey over this past month and what a last couple of days journey! Intense and my body seems to have given up a little filling up with cold on the flight home but we are back safe and sound. The journey back from Bylakuppe was full on with Martine very sick and Leslie not on form - an emotional farewell too to Sonam who was an absolute gem to us. Mysore and the train was intense as ever and Chennai is a heaving mass of life and not always the good side of it....it does have a smeel that only the heat and well dirt and poverty can creat but we found a great guest house for our last night in quiet gardens. We got an early taxi to the airport - mad driving right till the end - second and first gears are not used much! and the flight (s) home were just perfect. Club World is certainly THE best way to travel. My girls met me with Christian at the station in Valence on 26th in the evening and Teo and Claude came too for Leslie and Martine and we just about stayed awake for dinner before driving up the mountain in the cold to our own bed for the first time in a month. Thank God! I will posst more thoughts on India and this journey we have been on over the next few days and more photos as I start to get my head around life back here in europe....in the meantime namaste!