On to Chang Mai

Sunday morning we packed up early and headed off to the 'old' airport to catch our flight to Chang Mai. The predicted two hour drive in the taxi, actually ended up taking only half an hour, which ended up being a very good thing as...we had gone to the wrong airport! The moral of this story, is that if you ever buy internal flights in Thailand, on a website and are only given the choice of one airport to fly from (despite your repeated attempts to book the other airport which would be much more convenient), don't assume that you will actually be flying out of said airport!

We had to book another taxi to then drive us forty five minutes to the other airport. What a hassle and inconvenience, plus wasted money on unnecessary taxi rides.

The flight itself was uneventful, and relatively easy, with both girls sleeping the whole hour which was lovely. Such a nice short flight after last week's travels.

I have to say that Chang Mai feels so much nicer than Bangkok, which to me felt dirty, noisy and rundown. We were also dealing with jetlag and had all five of us cramped into one hotel room, with our hotel in the middle of nowhere.

Here we met up with our lovely English friends Mark and Josie Plummer, who moved out here last October (with their three kiddos, Jack, Eddie and Evie). They arranged for us to rent a house two doors away from them, so we can be close but not on top of each other - how very considerate. It is so nice to be able to spread out and for the kids to have room to play again. We have three bedrooms and two bathrooms and it's only costing us $20 per night, just perfect.