Typically British: Complaining about the weather!

Posted by admin on January 7th, 2010 filed in Attractions, Living here, Locals, Uncategorized, tourist tips

I’m always being told by my friends back in England how jealous they are that I live out here and how crap the weather is back home. This week, however, and possibly for the first time since I’ve been here, I’ve envied their situation.

 After you’ve lived out here for a while, it’s true that the hot weather becomes less and less exotic feeling and more of a daily chore that you must struggle through. In that way, Chiang Mai in the winter can be quite refreshing, as unlike the weather farther down south, you still have the benefit of sunshine but without the usual suffocatingly muggy feeling.

This week, however, this has not been the case. All day today I have been held up in my apartment as the rain streams unrelentingly from the sky like you might expect it to do in Manchester. Meanwhile, in merry Manchester itself, and across pretty much the whole of the UK in fact, they are enjoying an extended white Christmas.

While I know it gets tiresome after a day or so, I’ve always had rather a soft spot for snow. And perhaps I’m being either ungrateful, or greedy, or both, but is it too much to ask for just a bit of the white stuff instead of the wet stuff?