So yesterday we took a day off from the teaching and went in to Chiang Mai to collect the furniture from The Brick Road Cafe.

Getting in to town at just after 10am we went for food first, at Brix on the corner of Ratchadamnoen Rd and Moon Muang Rd , at Thapae Gate. The Brick Road Cafe is now closed for at least a month I believe, for complete refurbishment.

We had arranged to meet Dimitri at the cafe at 11 o’clock.

On arriving in Chiang Mai we still weren’t sure how we were going to move the furniture. After a phone call to a pick-up truck and driver rental service, we decided on using a Song Taow.

The pick-up people suggested that we would need at least two, possibly 3 runs and wanted to charge 1000 baht each run.

The driver of the Song Taow offered 400 baht a run and then said he’d be prepared to get it all on one run for 800 baht.

It took a bit of pushing and shoving, with the seats folded away;  one cupboard tied on the back step and 3 matressess strapped to the roof but it went ok and I ended up giving him 1000 as he also did a lot of the loading and unloading.

I skipped out of the unloading, staying behind in Chiang Mai whilst Boon went with the Song Taow. After taking a couple of Ice Coffees at The Writers Club and booking in for a foot massage later on, I then went to Airport Plaza for an hour in the gym.

Boon was back, waiting at The Brick Road when I finished at the Gym and then he went book buying while I went for a long overdue foot massage.

The furniture is now stored at our house waiting to go into the first Foundation House once we rent, hopefully start of September.