After over a day of coach travel coming from Pnomh Penh, we arrived Chiang Mai in Northern Thailand where we were set to meet my ex-pat mates Sunny and Jimmy, now living in Australia. As well as heading up to Pai for New Year, we spent the week with them cruising around town on mopeds, checking out the waterfalls, local food and night markets.
The next pictre is me looking like a bit of a plank in a helmet that clearly isn't sufficiently large for my cranium.
There was something of the Waffen SS about Sunny and Jimmy's that made me feel less like a fool though.
Sunny and Jimmy now doing their best "serious" shopping faces. Got to get the bargains.
Below is the bar made from a converted school bus where we went a few nights. The massively camp barman loved me and the lads but barely aknowledged Nat's existance. The kind of lines we had to deal with go along the lines of "I recognise you, know I do" - "Well i've not been here before, it's my first time in Chiang Mai" - "Oh, it mst have been in my dreams then"
SMOOTH
Without a doubt though the most memorable day has to have been for our trip out to the elephant sanctuary. Nat had already had her brief encounter with baby elephants but no-one else had and spirits were high in the bus, with everyone singing garage hits of yesteryear to the bemusement of the American couple coming with us.
After feeding, riding and bathing the elephants and getting pretty saddle sore in the process we headed back to town to check a bit of Thai Kickboxing or Muay Thai. A couple of hours drinking beer and watching people fight to a soundtrack of ear peircing snake charming music had got us pretty hyped so left trying to execute pretty tame roundhouse kicks.
After the lads left we spent some more time in Chiang Mai checking out the area around the art college which was nice and chilled. One thing we left with was an urge to learn the Ukele. Nat already had an interest but they were evrywhere in Chiang Mai and seemed pretty easy to play. Below is me trying to learn some chords from the wall chart.
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