Nearly forgot to write a post today (oh no, I hear all zero of my readers say).

I’ll be brief anyway, since it’s mostly a travelling day. Laos is over (😪) and I’m in Thailand (Chiang Mai) for a few days. The flight was a few minutes over one hour, on a tiny turboprop. Second-best thing was being given a little extra legroom by the check-in clerk. First-best thing was the in-flight snack: cake.

Take that, all other airlines with your poxy snack crackers or half a sandwich. Lao Airlines serves cake and you are all on notice to up your game.

Chiang Mai

Third time here. I really like this city, even though on approach I had some concern that the annual burning season had started early (it is rumoured to have done so in the south of the country). But the haze turned out to be just “normal” pollution and at ground level it’s standard sunshine and heat.

It being a Sunday, the huge Sunday “walking street” market is on. Actually this is one of the good ones, the side streets have most of the food offerings, and the main street is a little higher quality fare than usual. Absolutely no sign of knock-off branded products which is a real surprise.

Absolutely no sign of rubbery fish cakes at any food stall which is also a surprise and not a welcome one 😡.

Meanwhile, my dusty clothes are at the laundry, along with my dusty Nikes, which will either never come back, come back smaller, come back ruined or (🤞🏼) come back looking like new, for the princely sum of 200THB (€5.60).