CraigBlog

A collection of Travel & Gaming & “What’s On My Mind” posts

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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;…

  • 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 &…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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…

  • 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;…

  • Nothing particularly significant happened today, more or less by design. I slept in, wandered around the area to see what I could find, had breakfast at a cafe with pictures of cats on the counter … The usual. There are…

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