Wee Kev's Blog

  Ah finally we've arrived in a place where Tourists are a minority, and businesses cater to local needs, not to those of the tourists.  Chang Mai is certainly still a tourist town, with train and bus loads of Farang leaving and departing daily, but there is such a different feel to this place. I wish we had a month to spend here.  Met a German girl on the train ride up, and we ended up at the same hotel, so we generally spend our evenings out with her.  Last night, Julia (the German), found a bar that was truely the bar we'd been looking for all our lives.  Basically a convenience store with tables and chairs out front and a bathroom in the back….. perfect!!!  This gem was home to both locals and Farang who also have the same goal of affordable social drinking.  We sat next to some Thai women who taught us how to roll cigarettes and drink tea with Thai rum.  One of them was a tuk tuk driver, so she took us to a reggae bar with a phenomenal ska band and we spent the rest of the night dancing off the mojitos, thai rum tea, Chaangs and Singhas.  Aaron and I got hungry on our way home and found a fantastic spot for late night feeding frenzies.  On a street near our house there are 3 7-11's within 25 meters of each other and in front of that, is a park with a plethora of free seating and any kind of street food you could imagine.  We went with a Thai version of Pho, which was fantastic, and at 25baht a bowl, how could you go wrong?  Today it's time to shakeoff the hangover and hunt down a internet cafe and crank out some code…