Goodbye to July 2010
It's that time of the month again, July 2010 is about to leave us, welcome to August 2010.
Before we completely wrap up this July however, a few remarks;
The weather was good this month, for a July. We had the usual July rain showers but they were mainly during the evenings or nights and
Koh Samui was and is in dire needs for rain. There was also some strong wind again but this is also pretty standard for a July and we even had a mini
storm. All in all, if you were on Samui for a holiday during this 2010 version of July, you should've had plenty of sunshine. The
2009 and
2008 versions were slightly wetter, it seems when I'm looking back at the archives.
It was also a busy month on a personal note with my sister and her family and a very good friend visiting during this month. There are also a few blog readers that visited the island during this month, a big thanks goes out to all of you who regularly visit my blog, it's appreciated.
Lots of outdoors eating this month and good times were had by all of us.
This month saw also two highly popular posts, one with
pictures of one of the speedboats involved in last months Full Moon Party collision, I must admit, the pix do look intimidating and interestingly enough, two people who were on the boats involved found my blog and commented and spoke about their experiences.
The other popular post was about
pictures of the damage done after we had a real storm roaring over our island for a couple of hours, although the damage was rather marginal.
On to another topic, posts from bloggers around
Thailand that I found worth reading this month and who I can highly recommend to you, have a read through their respective posts and visit their blogs, there's some interesting stuff out there;
Martyn always looks beyond the Mango juice and is a regular in Isaarn, this time with a post of
Udon Thani's night market, well worth checking out, first of all I love (night) markets in the LOS and
Udon is a great city on top of that as well.
Andy has two great blogs, one about all provincial and legal news, a most interesting blog and he writes about a frustrating
mission impossible of finding museum brochures and his other blog is about a lesser or unseen Thailand and he really knows how to find those unseen spots, like this
museum in Yannawa.
Jamie in
Phuket has the real inside info on Thailand's biggest island (is it still really an island if it's connected by a bridge to the mainland?) where he just did a
photo walk with his daughter and he also has one of the other few weather blogs in Thailand, the
Phuket version! A true brother in weather crime ;-)
Monique is a Limburger, just like me and is residing on Samui just like me, she's a great photographer however, unlike me. Here's a
cool shot of a monk taking care of a dog.
Malcolm is retired in Thailand and claims to love it! Can you believe that! Here's
a great post how their little home transformed into their castle in the boonies near Kanchanaburi and the lessons he learned about the local customs. The boonies are called Whang Pho by the way.
Talen has a fantastic blog about Thailand and in this post he talks about
the news over one week with interesting stuff about a Thai good looking violinist turning Olympic athlete to the shooting of a new movie in Thailand; the Hangover part 2.
Lawrence lives in the Isaarn metropole of Phana and gives us a recipe of the most important
Nam Prik Thai relish, something each Thai should know how to make and now you can try it as well.
Mike of formerly My Thai Friend now blogs under the name of Thailand blogs and has a great post about a fascinating aspect of Thai culture,
Thailand's obsession with uniforms; everybody who's got a job probably has a uniform to go with it!
Steve of Thailand Musings fame has an interesting read about
Songthaews, the red pick up cabs with the open but covered (DUH?) rears you see all over Thailand. Click on the link to see a picture so it all makes sense again. My father in law on Samui used to have one of these Songthaews.
Well, I wonder if you made it all the way down here, usually my posts are not so big or long but thanks for dropping by and I hope to be seeing you all again next month.
Camille
Due to various reasons I couldn't have a loom until shortly after 10am, the demo being scheduled to be held between 10am and noon. I only covered a short distance, between Tesco Lotus in Chaweng and the post office in Maenam.
Some places were really crowded, especially in front of hotels or resorts but in-between there were plenty of long and empty stretches. The kids in the picture above even had custom made t-shirts!
It was nice to see many people involved though and being rather enthusiastic, both Thai and Western. Above shows school kids from the Bophud government school.
It seemed to be well organised and cars with loud speakers were making the rounds, keeping everyone involved. There were also thousands of little flags distributed in two languages (Thai and English) asking to stop the drilling.
