Winter in Mae Sot

While I was away last week, it seems that winter arrived in Mae Sot. Top 5 give-away signs are:

• the locals are going around in woolly hats, scarves and jumpers
• I have started sleeping under a cover
• the motorbike journey to work is chilly enough to merit a jacket
• I have turned the shower dial up a notch to have a properly hot shower in the morning
• walking barefoot on the tiled floor at home is just the wrong side of pleasantly cool, necessitating a further addition to my footwear collection:

To put all this in perspective for those of you shivering back home, daytime temperatures are still in the high 20s, dropping at night to 18-20 degrees, though the long range forecast is predicting a further fall, possibly as low as 16 at night! Then it will be socks and slippers!

I had a great week away last week with Alessandro and Antonella, friends who came to visit from UK. We spent time in and around Chiang Mai and Sukhothai, before coming back to Mae Sot at the weekend. I will do a proper write-up in due course....