Nan city. There are a couple of large local supermarkets in the central area that are very walkable but transport needed if Big C, Lotus's, Makro, Global House and Thai Watsadu are your thing.
Unpleasant this week in upper Nan province. Had a slight chuckle yesterday when the weather app said visibility in my area was 13 klms as I stared at where the mountain only 4 klms away should be. In fact the valley ridge only 2 klms away was quite faint. Very much the indoor period of the year now.
Wake up, think about exercising. Decide you did enough in your 40/50s to get to current age and don't see any benefit of trying to extend too far out if it involves effort. Forget about it, repeat tomorrow and so on.
They lengthened the runway and southern overrun area a couple of years ago and just did a modest terminal expansion. I don't think the airport has ever had more than nine commercial pax flights a day, currently closer to five-seven. This is madness, a complete waste of monies.
See a lot of bamboo bungalows build for resorts up here is northern Nan province. They seem to last about the same length of time it takes for most of the resorts to close for lack of financial viability....18 months.
The wife's homestay in northern Nan province has twice hosted motor bike adventurers riding overland from Europe to destinations in SE Asia. (Most recently a Bulgarian who had ridden 47,000 klms in eight months and was heading to Malaysia to finish.) He and the other couple both transited northern Iran and were full of praise for the country.