What we are enjoying so much staying here, apart from Charlie getting stuck into his sketchbook, and creating installations all over the gusethouse floor, is that after all the travelling and sightseeing we are 'just in India'! We have our own studio space, it's not like a hotel room, and when we walk out into the village we have been welcomed wherever we go. Yesterday we we first invited in for a cup of tea at one fishermans house, shown his wedding photos, introduced to Granny aged 91 and all the family
. Then we were invited in for a roof top breakfast at a half built house where they were having the house blessing puja. These are houses that are still being rebuilt after the tsunami. Today we ventured along the other side of the road, where we came across a derelict amusement park, maybe from the fifties who knows, broken swimming pools, sculptures, fountatins, arches, with a few gods thrown in for good measure.
What we are enjoying so much staying here, apart from Charlie getting stuck into his sketchbook, and creating installations all over the gusethouse floor, is that after all the travelling and sightseeing we are 'just in India'! We have our own studio space, it's not like a hotel room, and when we walk out into the village we have been welcomed wherever we go. Yesterday we we first invited in for a cup of tea at one fishermans house, shown his wedding photos, introduced to Granny aged 91 and all the family
. Then we were invited in for a roof top breakfast at a half built house where they were having the house blessing puja. These are houses that are still being rebuilt after the tsunami. Today we ventured along the other side of the road, where we came across a derelict amusement park, maybe from the fifties who knows, broken swimming pools, sculptures, fountatins, arches, with a few gods thrown in for good measure. 
