Status report

What has happened:

- we flew to Chennai
- Chennai turned turned out to be very noisy and its traffic very, very insane
- we had a number of near-death experiences on our way to the quiet resort of Mamallaporam
- Mamallaporam was superb
- we've eaten loads of great food
- we got an offer (on our second evening in India) to star in a Bollywood flick as russian henchmen

What hasn't happened:

- we haven't died
- we haven't been sick
- we're not severely sunburned (!) (factor forty thank you very much)
- the Bollywood flick (they cancelled the shooting due to the fact that the location supposedly resembling the russian tundra turned out to be extremely muddy)

What has happened since then:

- the Bollywood guys took us to Pondicherry in a taxi
- the Bollywood guys did not bring my rucksack to Pondicherry though they said they would
- I've been back to Mamalloporam looking for my rucksack
- I've been told that my rucksack is in the hippie hangout Auroville with some Austrians
- I've returned to Pondicherry, planning to pick up my rucksack tomorrow
- the bus driver honked the horn non-stop for the entire two-hour bus trip back

What hasn't happened since then:

- I resisted murdering the bus driver
- we haven't written our assignments
- dinner.

Seeya

Sigurd B
- stripped of his handbags and gladrags


"If I had no sense of humor, I would long ago have committed suicide"
- Gandhi