Smoggy Sticky rice Cycle

 I wasn't intending to blog this one, after all it was, at the end of the day, just a short cycle ride.

Let me set the scene:

This was the last day I am taking my anti-inflammatory drugs and for the second day I wanted to get back into some gentle exercise and cycling is one of the more gentle ways I have of doing this.

In fact I was also in the pool earlier as it needed a bit of a clean, that's really gentle but burning tons of calories, well it just doesn't.

I was also instructed to call in a sticky rice shop on my travels.

So I thought of a gentle little route and masked up. The mask is not a Covid measure now, it is to help exclude some of the PM2.5 pollution that blights this part of the world on an annual basis. In fact yesterday Chiang Mai was = first in the league of most polluted cities as pointed out by my friend Charlie Farlie 

Off I went and I must say I rather enjoyed it, here is yet another wonderful video as provided by Relieve:

As I said, I didn't really expect to be blogging this and had not taken any snaps until I came upon this roadside boatyard.

I am not really sure what they do here, but I rather fancy the thought of a MINI JET BOAT. I wonder how much it is 😎

Then I spotted this plucky little hound whose owners clearly love dearly:

And as my phone also takes a mini video of every snap I shoot here is a short of the little cutie:

Onwards and I came to Wat Wari Sutthawat, a wat I have passed many times but never called into, so I did.

Like so many wats it has its own features like the Buddha.

And the wat plus reclining Buddha.

One of the problems with this smokey dry season (apart from the obvious heath issues) are that snaps can be a little flat.

So I decided to ad a little magic to the above as the clever post processing apps I have can do it for me in no time.

From there it was a stop at the sticky rice shop and home.

Coffee.