Ezzy and Matt take Korat

It's always great when people make the effort to come visit you. As much as I love to travel and explore new places, it offers me a way to still feed my passion for travelling, but on a much smaller budget. I was so happy that my main man Ezzy decided to come up to Korat and visit me for a few days. It was a chance for us to spend some quality time together but also explore all the wonderful cafes Korat has to offer (thanks to Ezz discovering them on Instagram).

My poster-making skills were on form that day.

Unfortunately, I fell ill for the time he was here, so I couldn't necessarily be as adventerous as originally planned. For the morning of his first day here, Ezzy visited a couple of cafes, whilst I was busy at work. After not feeling any better after lunch, I took the rest of the day off and rested until Ezzy was ready to hit another cafe. We headed to a tiny little cafe called "Wood U Light" which was practically the size of a bedroom and had like 5 seats in it. Ezzy sampled the Butterfly pea milk, which was essentially a sour milk drink, because it looked pretty on Instagram...haha. I played it safe and just stuck to Italian soda. After that, I took him to YaMo monument, the centre of Korat, but due to rainy season, we were washed out and called it a day. Later that evening, we went on a much needed date night to Genkiramen, a Japanese restaurant not to far from the city centre. I have visited it many times before with Grace and other friends so I knew it was going to be a good dinner.

Date Night.

Friday morning I was still feeling bad so we took it easy and visited my favourite cafe to date!...Grandma Cafe. For the locals who read this blog, it is located just down the street from Happy Land. Like Wood U Light, it is a very small cafe but the menu is more extensive. Inspired by Japan, the cafe serves lots of teas and cakes. I sampled the Italian Almond Tea with SCONES. Yes, TEA AND SCONES IN THAILAND! And it did not disappoint. We spent the first twenty minutes of our time in the cafe taking artsy-fartsy shots as we were the only two in there. But, later we spent a good hour just chatting, working on our CVs and enjoying our time together.

TEA AND SCONES! (And coffee...but meh.)

That night, my friends from Plookpanya school joined us, along with Grace, for dinner at a restaurant called Baan Suan Kothip -- a restaurant I had visited a few months back which I thought would provide a nice atmosphere and good food. It was great catching up with the girls, but what was even better was introducing them to Ezz. They'd known I had spoken about what a great guy he is for a while so it was nice to put a face to him. We ended the night at my favourite ice-cream parlour, Yotse before heading to Bangkok early the next morning.

I have so much love for these guys.

Because this was Ezzy's last day in Thailand, we decided to head to Bangkok to make the most of it. We went to a beautiful cafe/restaurant called Roast at the EmQuartier Mall and tried to explore the city before the impending storm hit. Unfortunately, we were caught too soon and with no raincoats or umbrellas. We were at a night market called Artbox Signature (located at Queen Sirikit NCC) but had to leave after 10 minutes as the rain got too heavy and we couldn't do anything there as everyone was taking cover until the stalls. To add disappointment, we grabbed some Mexican food for dinner but they were OUT of guacamole...(A Mexican without guac I hear you cry! I know right...) But, after that we just decided to spend the night in as the rain didn't really clear up and Ezzy was leaving super early in the morning.

A bittersweet goodbye as always, but I'm glad that I'm able to see him next month when we travel HONG KONG together!!

(Life Update: So I've been looking for potential teaching jobs in Singapore, and I'm excited to say that I have asked to come to Singapore for an interview in late October! Exciting times but trying not to get too hopeful about it. Very early days yet. But, please everyone keep your fingers crossed for me that something good comes out of this!)

Exciting times ahead!