Pondicherry

So we are about to leave Pondicherry to catch a bus to Mamallapuram where i will be enjoying my 25th birthday on the beach, eating good seafood and enjoying some semi legal beers. It's gonna be sweet. Not a bad way to spend a birthday, even if to me 25 seems just a little bit on the old side. Pondicherry has been a very pleasant place. Very easy to walk everywhere, the streets are very clean, some really interesting colonial architecture and just overall laid back atmosphere. no places really open until 10am and they all close between 12-2 or even 4 as that if siesta time. then they will open again until 7, 9 or 11 if its a restaurant. We have been enjoying the many rooftop garden restaurants with theire french styles and even some of the funny attempt at french signs. This one place was called "L'E Space". i found it funny at least. The first day we pretty much slept most of it as there wasn't much sleep to be had on the bus ride over here. The next day we did a lot of the tourist things, visited an ashram and even convinced Justina to go to the Pondicherry museaum. As i climbed the stairs onto the second floor of the museum, Justina was sitting in a chair in the first room looking as if this was gonna take a while. ( I was a little slow as they had this huge chart with the history of the entire world and didn't think anything else could slow me down as much as that). But she told me to go around the corner to the right, outside. And what do i find there? A large rock collections of rock and mineral samples from all over India!!! ok well maybe it's just me that would get excited, but Justina thought it was quite funny. It's how she thinks usually of my rock liking. The next day we rented a scooty (they actually say scooty on the side of them here) and battled the traffic for the first bit before driving off intot he coutryside. We were looking for one interesting town and some beaches but there were really no roadsigns at all and we just kinda explored around the side streets. We cam to a few places that was a beach and one that we think might have been the one that was described in the book. Last night we had a very nice dinner and even a bottle of wine! that is a huge rarity here. So that's all i got for now. We have booked our flight from Calcutta to Burma for the 9th of february, so we are officially going to Myanmar. I'm pretty excited about it.