Small place in the countryWe luck up big time (as I think Americans say) when Rob and Sarah decamp with their family to Vietnam for 3 weeks, and require us to house-sit for them whilst they're away. OK, we do have the minor hassle of looking after their menagerie of dogs, buffaloes, rabbits and tortoises, but the beauty of the location more than makes up for it. We're 20km outside Chiang Mai, in an idyllic rural setting, which we've been able to fully explore thanks to the car, 4WD truck, ATVs, bikes and wellies that Rob kindly left for us. All around is classic Thai countryside; farmers in bamboo hats tilling their paddy fields (no doubt cheered on by the skyrocketing export value of Thai rice), buffalo stubbornly being put to the plough (they were outdated, but now petrol prices have made the tractor unfashionable), and a plethora of churches springing up in every village (churches? surely you mean wats? no - churches - there's loads of them. American missionaries must have been real busy up here)
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