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  • Some Post-Christmas Photos

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    There’s not much to say about the last few days, I don’t think. I read a lot, in a variety of locations. I wrote a bit, because my creative brain seems to be slowing coming back on-line. I enjoyed being in a very different place, and I wandered down streets just to see where they…

  • Christmas in Chiang Mai

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    Mostly, just a regular day in Chiang Mai, though I did sleep in & have some somewhat festive biscuits for breakfast. I say somewhat because there’s a limit to how Christmassy a box of shortbread-adjacent snacks from the slightly larger convenience store can really be. Had a nice breakfast at the Travellers Arms, which appears…

  • Christmas Eve

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    I slept well, and I slept in. The hotel does have a breakfast cafe, but I went elsewhere because it was pretty late by the time I was functional. I regret none of this. My thing for today¹ was to visit a sort of art gallery or exhibition space; Kalm Village. A lot of traditional,…

  • Moving Day

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    A month or so back, I booked a hotel over the Christmas period, because I wanted to be sure to have somewhere nice to stay, and because I wasn’t sure how I was going to feel about Christmas this year; A lot has happened in 2024, and I thought there was a chance I’d just…

  • Power Outage, Breakfast, & The Sunday Night Market

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    They’re changing the guard at Buckingham Palace upgrading something with the electrical utilities in the area, street by street, and this morning was the turn of the street the hostel is on, so we had no power between 0900 & 1200. Phai the manager/owner put up notices ahead of time, so folks knew, and there…

  • Wandering Around

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    I hadn’t heard noticed initially, but my cough got a whole lot better when I got here, which might be because of air quality? Less vehicles, maybe. Anyway, the air is clearer, as are my airways. Breakfast from the place beside the hostel, where I tried an Orange Americano; Orange Juice & Unsweetened Black Iced…

  • Regretting The Night Move?

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    Yeah, that one was weak. My review of the night bus to Chiang Mai is “probably don’t”. Got into CM even earlier than I expected, at 5:30 or so, and ran into the problem that almost nothing, including the hostel reception, would be open for hours. So I did the sensible thing & sat there…

  • As Far As The Bangkok to Chiang Mai Bus

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    Probably my earliest start of Thailand today, mostly because I set an alarm to make sure I wasn’t packing in a hurry. The hostel had a very relaxed attitude to people hanging out after checkout, and a bag store, so I was able to spend a chunk of the day wandering around. At a canal…

  • Last Night In Bangkok

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    Is he referencing the musical “Chess”? Who can tell anymore? No updates for a while, because there’s not been too much to say. Bangkok, sadly, hasn’t been great. I’ve been mildly unwell, not to the point of needing a doctor but at the This Is Really Annoying level, and I’ve found Bangkok to just be…

  • Bangkok, Day 2 & 3

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    Day two could accurately be described as “Lacking Momentum”. Took me a long-ass time to transition from ‘bed’ to ‘outside’ states, and I just couldn’t quite get enough forward momentum to do much with the day. That’s OK, I think; It’s something I expected to happen at some point, and this is over a month…