From Galicia to Tamil Nadu...

Evening shopping back from work. Nice, mango season has come. But which one should I take? So many kind. Look up here! A pack of 12 gorgeous export mangoes "alphonso" for 250 rupees. "Et hop!" , in the bag. Since that time (2 days ago) one mango for breakfast (imagine mangoes with orange colored flesh and without fibers) but I will have to eat more since it seems they all getting ripe at the same time (juice runing from one end!!!). And what a smell when I came back home this evening!!!

What strikes you South India is that al lot of women are not only fat, by sometimes extremly fat. Much more than anywhere in the world. I found the responsibles : rice and saree. Rice because it is the monofood culture here (not really balanced) and saree because what ever you might pick-up in weight you can always wear it. You just make less turns to put it on... (I guess western clothes give efficient diet signal when you can't enter them anymore).

Heared about William Jones? Me neither until I started a book about history of indian studies by Britain (~Indology). He founded the Asiatic Society in India, studied the famous Ashoka columns - were the India king was communicating about his conversion to bouddhism! -, some variants of old sanskrit, and discovered the well hidden roots of bouddhism in India beginning of 19th century.

"Jaya count" : last game invented when you find a road trip boring : find a friend, count the portraits of the TN chief minister along the road (her name : Jayalalita), the first who sees 10 has won. In some areas this number can be increase since the painting density is higher. Once finished you can start again with one of the Tamil movie stars!