Driving across Tamil Nadu is a pleasure - most main roads are well maintained. But if you take the roads close to the coastal region then there is a sharp turn every 50 metres!
And these are the roads you have to take if you are visiting temples and destinations in these parts of the state.
When we left Nagapattinam, at the end of the third dance recital we chose to head to Thiruthuraipoondi, then to Mannargudi and drive to Thanjavur.
We were told this was the best route to take to Thanjavur. Most parts of the road were recently-laid and if you are driving well before midnight you have small traffic on they road.
Thanjavur is becoming like Madurai - a town that does not sleep.
A string of food and badam milk joints are open well past midnight - around the city bus station. And many new hotels have come up in the past two/three years in the old fort zone of Thanjavur.
The accommodation and the shopping zones may be welcome but the lovely old houses between the famed sandhus ( lanes) which are unique to this old fort zone that lies north of the Big Temple have all but vanished.
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