Virapandianpatnam

St. Thomas - The village focus

From Kalyana Mandapam

Neighbourhood Chapel

Fine Detail from another age

Elaborate Roof Barge Boards

Village Views

Streetscape

Domesticated Peacock?

Rare in Patnam

At Manapad

Mediterranean hues at Melanie Chithi's

Miraculous(?) well in SFX cave

Down to the Cave of the Sanyasi

Shrine/Cave of St. Francis Xavier

Janice and Sr. Annuncia on the Manapad beach near SFX cave

Church of the Holy Cross

Parish divisions

Tiruchendur & Virapandianpatnam in the far distance

Manapad Bay

Alanthalai

The famous church at Alanthalai

Palmyra landscape

Altar - work in progress

Chapel under renovation

Idiappam Thattal

again

The Comedy Couple

Molly Aunty and Family

At Amalappa's

Time to leave?

Breakfast again

Wits

Shelter from the heat

At Green Lodge

and Another

One for the album

Chit Chat

3 youngest

Cool Terrace

Green Lodge Entrance

At the Village Graveyard

From afar

History Lesson



















Maternal Grandparents

Paternal Grandparents