Ahmedabad - Monday 22th November 2010

New flight from Pune to Ahmedabad, capital of Gujarat, famous because the Indian independance movement of Gandhi began there 

The concert takes place in the Gujarat Sports Club, close to a very large stadium. We were welcomed by Philippe, the new director of the Alliance Française of Ahmedabad (and previously director of the Alliance of Kathmandu) and Chinten, his cultural assistant, very fluent in french !!

Barely arrived in the sports club, we had to attend a press conference with a lot of journalists.

This press conference was full of teaching for us : we now know that we have to be careful when the photographs ask us to have a special attitude because they like to choose the strange pictures for their articles ;)

After the interviews, we were invited by Philippe and Chinten to a good restaurant to eat our first Tali (without alcool because Gujarat is a dry state ...)

Back to the sport club where we are supposed to play tomorrow outdoor. The weather forecast is not very optimist for tomorrow but the technicians begin anyway to install the structure and the amplifier for the concert. The stage is really huge and if it does not rain, this would be our largest concert in India with a very good sound 

view from the stage :

My version of the famous picture "Raising the flag on Iwo Jima" :)

Time to go to sleep, dreaming of tomorrow's concert