Traditional food
After our day-trip to Mae Wang we took Moodang, Fanta and Pom out for a traditional western healthy dinner: pizza and ice-cream.
Traditional entertainment
Next day, we headed off with Mike to go ice-skating: stymied by the rink being closed for renovation, we bowled instead. Mike won - but Rosa got the prize for true grit, managing to raise her game at the end after about six straight disastrous goes where nothing went right for her.
Our last 24 hours
Then we were into our last 24 hours in Chiang Mai (for now - I think we may have to be back one year for April's Songkran festival, which sounds great). In between final posting, packing and chucking away of things, we hung out with our new Thai and farang friends:
And here are the farangs - the Kavil became a bit of a salon in the evenings by the end of our visit:
Sarah and John (above right), a really nice couple from Wood Green, now have a travel blog of their own - and when Mike Lyth finally gets his wares up on the web we'll link to that too!
Kanjana Restaurant
Just over the road from us was the Kanjana restaurant - delicious cheap food which we ate many times. Here's a quiz question: who chose the food in the photo below as their last Chiang Mai meal? Click the photo to find out!
Time to hit the road
All packed, it was finally time to go.
Kenji, a Japanese traveller, and Kurt from the US, waved us off from the Kavil, and Jarat drove us to the station.
Then it was off to Bangkok, past fields and wats:
Eve saves the day
The journey back south was fine, but we'd made our biggest mistake yet - we'd left our passports in the Kavil's safe. After a little panicking, we remembered that Eve was flying to Bangkok in the morning - we were able to get hold of her in time, and she brought them safely and met us with them the next day - thanks again Eve!
- Mark
2 comments:
Hi! guys great to be able to visit the library each Saturday and read about your travels. Today the sun is sort of out which puts a different slant on everything. Beautiful white blossom on trees and yellow daffodils luminescent against the those heavy-sitting-on-your-head skies that render me useless.
Hey I HAVE A BUYER FOR MY FLAT!!!
The end of that particular nightmare is in sight and the flat is looking so good I wish I could live there. Even a little bluetit has moved into the birdhouse on the wall! Anyway the woman who is buying it sounds like she loves it and I know she will enjoy living in it. A couple of hours after she put in her offer of the asking price, another woman saw it and offered 5K more. So it was only on the market for 24 hrs!
Obviously it isnt settled until contracts are exchanged but hopefully that will be soon.
Thank you for your phone call Mark, it was great to hear from you. With Mog's assistance I got 2 tickets to Mama Mia and we had wonderful seats and a very happy evening singing the songs and enjoying the show. Leicester Sq. on a Saturday night is my idea of hell on earth! PC says times up. Love to Teresa.
Great to see the photos of Chiang mai and all at the kavil GH It will be great to go back and visit them all again next year. I've never been in thailand at songkran but it looks good! fancy leaving the passports - its so easy to do - which is why i always check before i leave on a bus or train - you were lucky!!
Jim and Sean have just gone off to Turkey - Sean for a week and Jim for 2. So its me and Shay back here
seans CD has come out! Funk the System sounding good - could you download it if you want to hear it?
Lotsalove Di
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