So Day 1 we just arrived, and after Cassidy's huge sigh and under her breath she says, "what did you do?" Trish was equally concerned but ultimately it was the best $15 guesthouse room ever. Yes, it was a whopping $15 USD! But alas, no hot water.
The sitting area we met great people with awesome stories. We had a guy there that was kind of on call helper who got us coffee and chai in a thermos each morning while we hung out and chatted with people and used what is the best internet in Southern India it seems.
And we went to interesting food places and music because of Franz. Who sadly I didn't get very good pictures of, but here was part of the music adventure.
As I watched her I noticed how adept she was to put in some food and such into the rice, ball it up, and pop it into her mouth. Sometimes she would use the naan to pick it up and it was cleanly done, but a mess with stuff all over her hands. I realized that this was an art form.
Only later was I told in Southern India eating with ones hands is the norm. You always eat with your right, and never with two hands because you use your left to wipe with. Yes wipe with. Yes wipe there.
So, we were given a little less on the finer points of eating with ones hands as you see here. Its not as easy as it looks if you don't want it to be a huge mess.
Kapaleeshwar Temple is a great temple but all the statues were being painted for the coming festival in a few days and so they were under scaffolding but you get the idea.
St Thomas, as in Doubting Thomas, as in the bible Thomas came to India to continue his preaching and settled in Chennai. Who knew!!! Not only that its only one of three or four churches (there is St Peters in Rome, I think a second on in Rome and I think one in Spain) built over the burial site of an apostle and here, in Chennai there was St Thomas. Pretty eye opening eh?
His staff, put up near the water is said to have kept the sea from flooding the area over the years.