Living in the Heat of the Tropics

April 3rd, 2008 at 10:05am

This is the hottest, most miserable, sweaty, lethargic and generally steamy time of year in Thailand and most of South-East Asia. This is the time NOT to come to Thailand, unless you invest in a fully-air-conditioned holiday from the most you step off the plane. Everyone here is anxiously counting down to the ‘Songkran’ holiday which falls on the next full moon (in April)…traditionally after that it should start to cool down and become slightly more live-able.

The one nice thing about the weather as of late is that the winds have died right down (hence the heat) but that makes for a very calm, clear blue and beautiful sea. So the view is nice, even if I am dreaming of cold showers and ice cube baths.

Been very busy lately doing lots of healing-related activities and such, my usual side-hobby of particular interest, and yes folks it may have even involved some ‘water up the bum’ and periods of elimination of solid food…but I try not to bore the readers of this site with that too much, seeing as this is meant to be a travel site and all….so I have branched all of those gory details into my healing site which is http://www.rebuildwithraw.com. Feel free to have a look over there and see exactly what I’ve been up to…

In the meantime, I had a great side trip up to Bangkok about 2 weeks ago…it’s kind-of funny how I enjoy going up there so much as a break from living on the beach, but the Bangkok dwellers all rush down here to escape the madness of the big city. I guess we all enjoy a nice break from whatever the regular routine may be!

I have more friends up there now having been here in Thailand for awhile, and it’s great fun to go up there and hit all the nice bars and restaurants with good company. I had a mad shopping spree as well, and hit neatly every mall, shopping area, night market and even managed an early morning excursion to the weekend market in my few days there. Between all of that I was drinking, recovering, drinking, recovering and somehow having a great time managing it all! Mmmmm, homemade ginger ice cream and homemade dark chocolate ice cream – the absolute PERFECT combo – let’s leave that safe away from the raw food website ok folks…thanks!

Having some fun with island friends

Back on Samui, I’ve been inundated with work which is fantastic…I’ve started a free workshop here entitled ‘How to Take your Healthy Habits Home’ and it’s quickly become quite popular amongst the fasters…so that has been pretty exciting and uplifting. It’s so nice to hear the positive feedback and know that I am reaching people, that they get what I’m trying to say. I haven’t had much time for anything else lately – gotta get the time management back into check and make more time for reading, relaxing and long beach walks!

Lots of long-timers at the Spa have been heading home lately with Spring just around the corner in the northern parts of the world. My old neighbor Ann Marie, author of ‘Confessions of a High-Heeled Healer’ left a few weeks ago for the UK although she says she’ll be back in 2 months, Frank the Mercedes employee from Belgium who comes here every year for 2 months just went home recently, George, another Belgian guy who has 3 generations in his family who have run circuses all through Europe, is just getting ready to head back home after having been here for nearly 6 months, Helen, a Reiki practitioner from the UK is heading back this week after about 4 months here, Mike the yoga teacher just left for his 2 month holiday in India, Greg the literary agent recently went back to the USA after having been here for about 5 months, my Hungarian neighbors just left after 2 months here – 1 was learning Thai boxing every day and the other was a musician who wrote music on his laptop most days – and so on and on – there are just so many people who pass through regularly that it makes for a very nice community, albeit a bit transient. At least people always have something interesting to talk about!

Samui Sunrise

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