{"id":5857,"date":"2024-12-25T16:59:11","date_gmt":"2024-12-25T16:59:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=5857"},"modified":"2024-12-26T04:46:32","modified_gmt":"2024-12-26T04:46:32","slug":"christmas-in-chiang-mai","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hoarde.net\/craigblog\/?p=5857","title":{"rendered":"Christmas in Chiang Mai"},"content":{"rendered":"\n

Mostly, just a regular day in Chiang Mai, though I did<\/strong> 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.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Had a nice breakfast at the Travellers Arms, which appears to be a sports bar with accomodation & a focus on football, based on the constant stream of UK games on the TVs. The volume is turned down, thankfully.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Did some wandering around, some reading in caf\u00e9s, some reading on a bench in the shade of a tree by the city moat, … It was a nice way to spend the day.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

This place, Bloomin’ Moon, did have a large orange cat, but it was not interested in people-ing. They also had a guest in their accommodation area whose shoes had gone missing, and seemed to be looking through CCTV footage to unsuccessfully investigate the Great Sandal Heist.<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

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They wished me a Merry Christmas as I left<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n\n\n\n

Back at the hotel, they’d left a Christmas gift, so I now have some branded Rodman Hotel pencils.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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I’d looked up various places that would probably be doing Christmas Stuff (within walking distance there’s an Irish Pub & a place called the Red Lion), but in the end it didn’t seem that important, so I had the traditional Yuletide Chicken & Cashews stir-fry instead.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

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