Amazing Thailand, disaster floods and drought at the same time

Or is that the media love to wish bad things come on the happy life in our little Thai Shire? Or perhaps to use the place as a bogus locale of a coming apocalypse?

Amazing Thailand, disaster floods and drought at the same time

Or is that the media love to wish bad things come on the happy life in our little Thai Shire? Or perhaps to use the place as a bogus locale of a coming apocalypse?

Torrid weather on the way

According to the Thai Meteorological Department, this weeks fresh northerly breezes and rare thunderstorms will yield to an oppressive wave of heat, up to 44 degrees C, during the coming holidays of Songkram. Nice while it lasted, with night temperatures plunging to the high 70s F.

Torrid weather on the way

According to the Thai Meteorological Department, this weeks fresh northerly breezes and rare thunderstorms will yield to an oppressive wave of heat, up to 44 degrees C, during the coming holidays of Songkram. Nice while it lasted, with night temperatures plunging to the high 70s F.

Sleep without aircon

My (Thai) wife not using air conditioning at night late this week (in the Bangkok hot season) when midweek freak rains (causing serious local flooding) cooled Bangkok very nicely and brought night breezes from the lovely north.

However, this is,  as always, with a table fan directed at the bed.

less than this, you don't need it.

Sleep without aircon

My (Thai) wife not using air conditioning at night late this week (in the Bangkok hot season) when midweek freak rains (causing serious local flooding) cooled Bangkok very nicely and brought night breezes from the lovely north.

However, this is,  as always, with a table fan directed at the bed.

less than this, you don't need it.

Take a bath in front of the whole neighborhood

That's what my wife does in her Southern Thai village, doesn't think a thing of it, carrying on several conversations at once. The Thai bathe at least twice a day, and in all the years -- more than 50 -- I've been here, I've never smelled a single case of B.O., even on crowded buses in the heat of the afternoon in Bangkok. Remarkable how at the end of a hot day, everyone's shirt seems as freshly pressed as in the morning.

It was an olefactory shock to move from Thailand in 1963 to England, where many people bathed 
once a week. Standing in line at Sainsbury, you thought you were in the cheese department.