Where do I start? We seem to have fitted so much into our nine days here in Chiang Mai, and much to John's delight even managed some golf. I did send him into both Delhi and Bangalore golf clubs, to look for pitch markers and suss out the playing details. He returned from both empty handed - but Chiang Mai turned up trumps. The course was even walking distance from our accommodation - so it was a winner on all counts. Five months without striking a golf club prod...

We headed north from Ayutthaya to Chiang Mai, the second largest city in Thailand with a population of around 200,000 depending on whose stats you read. It's a popular place on the tourist trail so has its share of cafes, temples and visitors. Despite that it's an interesting place and we had no problem filling our nine days. When we booked the accommodation we weren't too sure whether nine days might be stretching things, but we knew we had to organise our Mya...