Chiang Mai is a great place. I will give you details of an old teak house you can stay in if you go, the lady who owns it is a great hostess, and do the hot air balloon flight, they pour champagne over your head afterwards
Thanks Tawi2 , Jan has her Visa application booked for June 5, so hopefully by Mid June we will know one way or T,other, Iv heard so many good things about Chiang Mae, and with Thailand being on my way to Phils, and not a million miles from Jan, it would be wrong not to .