Down the Coromandel Coast

We spent a few days on the Coromandel Coast on the Bay of Bengal, visiting two towns that became colonies of France and Denmark in the scramble with Britain and the Dutch to establish trading footholds in the 17th and 18th centuries, namely the French enclave of Pondicherry – now Puducherry- and the previously Danish post of Tranquebar – now Tharangambadi meaning ‘place of the singing waves’.