Alpine golf and tuktuk adventures

Chiang Mai-Lots of fun in Thailand’s city of temples, motor scooters, markets, food and GOLF. Alpine golf club is our favourite so far, 45 mins from CM. I am coming 4th in the comp, so will play with the leaders- ahhh - for the final round. After golf Michelle and I hopped into a Tutuk for a couple hours for a tour of the old city. It was great to whizz thru the chaos of a city that somehow works! There is no idleness, everyone is working - from the women golf caddies who tell you what club to use and where to hit, to the market stall holders selling clothes, fruit, frogs, flowers, pad Thai takeaways and bbq’d scorpions. Every other shop provides massage or is home to motor mechanics. The monks are busy decorating temples for the upcoming Light Festival.
Chiang Mai is a place of endless fascination. People are polite, and industrious in a city where Buddhism still prevails, but the need to eek out a living where there is no social welfare drives and motivates.Read more