Up, up and away.......

 And so it turns out that all that was needed to free us from Chiang Mai was a cloudy day and a special offer on flights to Krabi!

To be fair, it was quite cloudy:

And so, a mere 2 flights and 7 hours later, we're in Krabi, where, admittedly, it's still a bit cloudy, but in a more tropical way.....

Our first flight was Chiang Mai to Bangkok and I thought I'd give you a snapshot of Chiang Mai airport.

Not a large airport, even so, around 9 million passengers use it each year.

First up, it would benefit from a good going over with a can of Pledge and a duster. (other polishes are available)

The security scanning is total chaos. You queue for a tray to put your items in for scanning, then join a different queue to put the tray through the scanner. ( I sensed the hand of the French at work here.....)

As ever, my extensive and somewhat complicated corsetry triggered the metal detectors.  My reward was a thorough going over with the sensor from the delightfully named Miss Tittiporn. (I'll leave you to it with this one.. ..)

Decor-wise, the place would definitely benefit from some. ( The carpet seemed to be a cast-off from a particularly rowdy Wetherspoons)

Needless to say, we departed later than advertised and from a different gate than the one we'd be told to go to.

Still, 9 million passengers each year eh?