Summertime has arrived in this part of the world, with temperatures rising considerably although we are not yet in April, normally the hottest month in Thailand.
I just returned from an island in the eastern province of Trat. The night I arrived, a summer thunderstorm caused an island-wide blackout that lasted through the following day and into the day after that. Thankfully, the resort where I stayed has its own generator, so we had power and internet, on and off though.
But I was warned that if heavy rain returned the next day, our flight back to Bangkok on a small private plane might be delayed. Luckily, the weather was fair on our departure day, and we had no problem getting a speedboat to the mainland to catch our flight.
