Forty-Nine Coffee House just opened in a Shell Petrol Station here in Chiang Mai. I have always been fascinated by the facilities at gas stations in Thailand.
The most recent PTT station in our area has a Dental Clinic and a laundry shop, f. i.

The Amazon coffee shops often do an excellent job with some greens and flower arrangements, but Forty-Nine Coffee House in Shell wins the prize any day.
The Coffee House is an oasis in the gas station surrounded by a soothering green and an artificial waterfall. Yes, you read it correctly. A waterfall!!






The cold streak continues in Chiang Mai. It is maybe the most prolonged cold period I have ever encountered here.
We haven’t opened the air conditioner for two months. It is so hard that the security guards in our area sleep in and don’t do their morning rounds. They argue that there are ghosts in some street every morning. Amazing Thailand!