Nancy LindleyMay 31 minMay 2022It's Hot In Thailand... And it looks like our service projects are going to heat up soon.
CMI RotaryApr 41 minApril 2022As one of our contributors writes this month, there does appear to be light at the end of the tunnel in Chiang Mai. Municipal education...
Nancy LindleyFeb 281 minMarch 2022Welcome to Smoky Season! It's been late getting started this year, with pleasant temperatures and occasional rain showers lasting longer.
Nancy LindleyFeb 11 minFebruary 2022February opens with the Lunar New Year, also known as Chinese New Year.
Nancy LindleyJan 41 minJanuary 2022December was a busy month for the club, with procurement, packing and deliveries of winter clothing, teddy bears and food to the needy.
Nancy LindleyDec 8, 20211 minDecember 2021"Winter" such as it is in Thailand, has arrived in Chiang Mai. Most mornings there is frost atop Doi Inthanon, the highest peak in Thailand
Nancy LindleyNov 2, 20211 minNovember 2021Sadly, the optimism of last month's CMIRC Bulletin, published in late September when cases were under control, has been dashed.
Nancy LindleyOct 8, 20211 minOctober 2021The return to a "new normalcy" may be in sight. More and more vaccines are coming into Thailand.
Nancy LindleySep 4, 20211 minSeptember 2021Some light at the end of the tunnel. During August some of our CMIRC members returned from their overseas vaccination trips with more coming
Nancy LindleyAug 3, 20211 minAugust 2021As you'll see from the length of this month's bulletin, everything has pretty much been in suspension during the month of July.
Nancy LindleyJul 10, 20212 minJuly 2021So sorry to be a week late with the July bulletin for Chiang Mai International Rotary Club, but the last two weeks have been wild.
Nancy LindleyMay 31, 20212 minJune 2021School reopening is delayed. Private schools are online. Chiangmai is in a type of lockdown. The effect on the local economy is devastating
Nancy LindleyMay 6, 20212 minMay 2021The third Covid-19 wave hit Thailand and Chiang Mai province with a vengeance in early April.
Nancy LindleyApr 18, 20212 minApril 2021We read media reports that quarantine requirements for those wishing to enter Thailand may be loosened for those who have been vaccinated...
Nancy LindleyMar 6, 20211 minMarch 2021Smokey Season is underway in Chiang Mai, just like normal, despite little else being "normal" in Thailand because of Covid-19.
Nancy LindleyFeb 5, 20211 minHappy(?) Chinese New Year 2021It was a year ago that the first cases of Covid-19 outside of China were found in Thailand, initially with Chinese tourists...
Nancy LindleyJan 7, 20212 minJanuary 2021December 2020 was quite the busy month for Chiang Mai International Rotary Club (CMIRC) as we completed our School Vision Screen Project...
Nancy LindleyDec 3, 20202 minDecember 2020We've just been treading water here, to use an analogy from our Children's Water Safety & Drowning Prevention Program.
Nancy LindleyNov 5, 20201 minNovember 2020This past weekend was both Halloween and Loy Krathong here in Thailand.
Nancy LindleyOct 6, 20201 minOctober 2020October 1st was the end of what is called "Buddhist lent", which is the rainy season in Thailand when the monks must remain in their temples
Nancy LindleySep 10, 20201 minSeptember 2020And so it goes. Each day we look at the internet sites to see if there are any new locally-transmitted cases of Covid-19 in Thailand...
Nancy LindleyAug 7, 20201 minAugust 2020Welcome to the "New Normal". It's been over ten weeks since Thailand has experienced its last local transmission of Covid-19...
Nancy LindleyJul 31, 20201 minAugust 2019Monday, 12 August, the birthday of Thailand's Queen Mother is Thailand's Mother's Day.
Nancy LindleyJun 30, 20201 minJuly 2020Rainy season has started, with brief, but heavy showers nearly every day and clear skies for weeks on end.
Nancy LindleyJun 1, 20201 minJune 2020May 2020 has been an "interesting" month in Chiang Mai. We've had just one new Covid-19 case in the province this month...
Nancy LindleyMay 5, 20201 minMay 2020Blue skies and clear air have returned to Chiang Mai wit the summer rains, and the province has gone nearly a month without any new cases...
Nancy LindleyApr 14, 20201 minApril 2020March 2020 will be remembered as the month where everything changed. Well, not quite everything.
Nancy LindleyMar 14, 20202 minMarch 2020It's Smoky Season in Chiang Mai, the time of year when farmers burn their fields to eliminate the waste from the previous season's crop.
Nancy LindleyDec 28, 20191 minJanuary 2020Happy New Year! It's high season in Chiang Mai with the streets, malls and restaurants bustling with seasonal visitors.
Nancy LindleyDec 7, 20191 minDecember 2019It's the Holiday Season in Thailand. The Thai people love the secular aspects of Christmas and New Year's Eve is a big holiday.
Nancy LindleyOct 31, 20191 minNovember 2019November is the start of the cool season in Chiang Mai and our collection boxes for the Children's Winter Clothing Appeal are filling up.
Nancy LindleyAug 31, 20191 minSeptember 2019Surprisingly, there are no holidays in Thailand during the month of September. Odd, for a people who love their celebrations.