What a great couple of days we've had- full of rickshaw rides, inspiring sights and the tastiest curries ever!
Yesterday we had our first appointment with a lady called Thangam Philips of the fair-trade handicraft business, C.T. Philips. As well as exporting goods all over the world, they own a beautiful shop where we arranged to meet. We learnt alot about craft from all over India, as well the principles behind Thomas and Thangam's business and for those that know us, you'll be able to guess we were in our element as we feasted our eyes upon the amazing collection of textiles, jewellery, papers, ceramics, leather goods...we could go on! We're going back for more tomorrow!
Whilst here we've also managed to find a great coffee shop chain that we escape to to rest our swollen hot ankles(it's 105 degrees!), drink candle-lit tea in and catch up on some journal writing. They even play Bananarama-oh yes.
This evening was spent taking a sunset stroll along Chennai beach- with cricket players next to fish sellers, kite flyers next to donkeys, and picnicing families next to shoot the balloon competitions. As night fell, we left the hundreds gathered to catch a rickshaw back to our hostel with beautiful pictures forever imprinted on our minds. Which is a good job because our camera ran out of battery!
As we do now... night night xx
Yesterday we had our first appointment with a lady called Thangam Philips of the fair-trade handicraft business, C.T. Philips. As well as exporting goods all over the world, they own a beautiful shop where we arranged to meet. We learnt alot about craft from all over India, as well the principles behind Thomas and Thangam's business and for those that know us, you'll be able to guess we were in our element as we feasted our eyes upon the amazing collection of textiles, jewellery, papers, ceramics, leather goods...we could go on! We're going back for more tomorrow!
Whilst here we've also managed to find a great coffee shop chain that we escape to to rest our swollen hot ankles(it's 105 degrees!), drink candle-lit tea in and catch up on some journal writing. They even play Bananarama-oh yes.
This evening was spent taking a sunset stroll along Chennai beach- with cricket players next to fish sellers, kite flyers next to donkeys, and picnicing families next to shoot the balloon competitions. As night fell, we left the hundreds gathered to catch a rickshaw back to our hostel with beautiful pictures forever imprinted on our minds. Which is a good job because our camera ran out of battery!
As we do now... night night xx
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