This was one thing I worried about when I went to Chiang Mai for a few days on my own, staying in a hotel instead of the usual choice of a hostel. If I got in one of my indecisive moods I could spend way too much time tethered to my hotel room. This is coming from someone who can spend an hour wandering the supermarket on the way home from work due to being too indecisive to pick one thing to cook myself for dinner. Hopeless.
Don’t get me wrong-I’m not someone who needs a schedule for the day and I like to wander, that’s when you come across the sparkly gems. But since I was only there 3 days I needed to have a bit of a clue as to what I was doing to make sure I was content.
It was almost looking grim too. After a few small outings on foot I still wasn’t feeling motivated to look into what I could do, and the place was starting to have a dirty Bangkok feel to it with lots of dodgy looking massage parlours. Luckily I threw out a floating device and saved me from myself. I went and talked to a girl at the hotel and found out where Thai “teenagers” (I think she meant 18-30year olds because the area was next to a University) hung out. Also I booked a cooking class, and found out where she liked to go with her friends for dinner (ah...that makes me sound like a creep!). Now that wasn’t hard, was it?!
The day started with pointless wandering and warning bells, but finished strongly with looking around a great cafe strip and finding some beautiful jewellery.
In the evening after dinner I followed the sound of music to the other side of the river only to find the local fruit and flower market. The colours and exotic fruits were magic. Add in a night cap Long Island Iced Tea back at the hotel bar...life is good!
Don’t get me wrong-I’m not someone who needs a schedule for the day and I like to wander, that’s when you come across the sparkly gems. But since I was only there 3 days I needed to have a bit of a clue as to what I was doing to make sure I was content.
It was almost looking grim too. After a few small outings on foot I still wasn’t feeling motivated to look into what I could do, and the place was starting to have a dirty Bangkok feel to it with lots of dodgy looking massage parlours. Luckily I threw out a floating device and saved me from myself. I went and talked to a girl at the hotel and found out where Thai “teenagers” (I think she meant 18-30year olds because the area was next to a University) hung out. Also I booked a cooking class, and found out where she liked to go with her friends for dinner (ah...that makes me sound like a creep!). Now that wasn’t hard, was it?!
The day started with pointless wandering and warning bells, but finished strongly with looking around a great cafe strip and finding some beautiful jewellery.
In the evening after dinner I followed the sound of music to the other side of the river only to find the local fruit and flower market. The colours and exotic fruits were magic. Add in a night cap Long Island Iced Tea back at the hotel bar...life is good!
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