In Thailand it is 'illegal' to wear helmets; however I would say that about 50% of people don't wear helmets, and the police will cruise about Chiang Mai on their motorbikes (wearing helmets!) and not bat an eyelid when they see you without a helmet. However they have random check points, where a group of Thai police will fine every person not wearing a helmet....So yesterday I was crusing along (I was naughty and was not wearing a helmet) across a sort of courtyard and at the other side there was a check point. Me being in my own world didn't see it until I was about 10 metres away and by then about 4/5 Thai police had seen me. So I suddenly stopped and whipped and my helmet from underneath me and put it on and whilst they were all still staring but then I cruised slowly passed. The police looked like they were about to eat me alive or if not shoot with one of their Thai guns so I wasn't sure what to do so I drove passed giving them a cheecky grin:):):) They were not impressed and I was even going to ask them for a photo to share on this blog (the Thai Police uniform and motorbike are just fabulous) but I thought that was pushing it...
Since I didn't manage a cheeky photo of the Police, instead of I have uploaded some random snaps from Chiang Mai:)
The first photo is at taken at uni, the second one is of my me and my friend Nam (the girl) and also a famous Thai man (don't know who is!but everyone else there seemed to know him) outside an ice cream place that I went to last night and the third one was taken a little bit ago from my balcony:)
