Picked up an authentic Indian Carrom board (its something like a cross between billiards and shuffleboard)

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Our driver: “in Chennai it is Safety Next”

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This weekend we also visited a cultural attraction near Chennai called DakshinaChitra where there are displays of traditional homes and crafts from the provinces of Tamil Nadu (Chennai), Kerala, Andhra Pradesh and Karnataka. Dan even got his palm reading done and it sounds like we’ll all still have jobs for at least the next few months!

On Sunday we decided to take in the downtown shopping scene in an area called Tyagaraya Nagar which one of our colleagues described ‘like being dropped into a bucket full of people’. It wasn’t quite that dramatic but pretty cool to see the streets full of vendors and local people shopping for goods.

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Mahabalipuram was a 7th century port city, the temple-monument is the last of seven temples (the rest of which are now under the sea). Our guide told an interesting story about how during the tsunami in 2004 they could briefly see the tops of the other temples as the sea receded before the brunt of the waves came in.

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Lamb Kabob with some lentils and a nice Chianti.. err Gin and Tonic

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Some photos with the team at lunch. The food here is so amazing, such a variety of flavors and its mostly gluten free!

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Just made it to Frankfurt, about to depart for the final leg to Chennai

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