Pottering around (Pondicherry)

Going to the beach, reading books aloud, riding mopeds along franco-indian streets, eating croissants, lying under ceiling fans in a beachhouse suite of columns, lounges and curtains, lying under ceiling fans four to a messy dark room, buying shirts and sunglasses, trying on jewelery, smoking beedies, drinking chai poured from jug to cup to jug to cup in smooth arcs to cool it down, sweating, running away from beggars, washing clothes on the bathroom floor, looking for Bastille day celebrations and finding a film set. And being photographed by locals whilst doing all the above.