Fashion Tea For Two

A very belated blog post. Us girls all love dressing up, cake and fashion and this is where they all meet. 

We all love the typical English high tea. Finger sandwiches, scones and a selection of cake, what’s not to love? But what happens when tea meet fashion.

Paul Smith Tea Pot

Where cake and fashion meet.

Imagine a fine selection of loose tea and herbal infusions, from typical Earl Grey to some new blends of Pear Caramel. The ‘Well Being’ had a variety of fruity teas, Amazing Apple, Cheeky Cherry Spice and Caramel Indulgence.

Biscuits, cakes and mousses with inspiration taken from this autumn/winter collection. The Fendi sell out ankle boot and Marc Jacobs’ showstopper blazer, both as eye catching biscuits.

Fendi, Boot - Marc Jacobs, Coat

This is the perfect outing for girls with the love of fashion and cake brought together in one place.

To finish of the day, we got given a little take away box with a few goodies to take home with you. This was such a lovely afternoon out and perfect for an outing with a twist. 

Bon Appétit.  

Thai Style - Food on the Go.

Walking down Beach road, across the Soi's and along pretty much any road, using various ways of grabbing your attention by using horns, bells, squeaky toys they are everywhere. Each selling there goodies. You can buy prawns, crab pinchers, spring rolls, thai sausage even milkshakes and ice cream. Or you can try the specialities which are found here like, beetles, grasshoppers and if you want, scorpions.

Parked up on the pavement out side the school

Best sweetcorn in town

Food cook on the road

Broom, duster? anyone?

This year a couple of my friends made me try some new goodies from several of the food carts. I tried some crispy pork, and learnt the name for pork in Thai which is moo. You can imagine how confused I was. I also tired BBQ'd sticky rice and a spicy oyster salad. That is only the start of the list, there is so much more.  

Bon Appétit

Underwater Adventure

I haven't been diving for over 14 months, so back in the city where I learnt to dive in, I thought why not get back in to the water. So booked my self in to a few days diving. The first day we dived round the islands of Pattaya. This was to get comfortable in the water and refresh my skills of being back in le grand bleu.

The day flew past with making new friends on the boat, this always makes the day more fun, diving is always a good way of meeting new people. The dives where good fun and a drift dive (swimming with the current) for a first dive is not a bad start either. After the day diving a couple of the instructors and I went to grab a drink and chill out for a couple of hours.

The second day we went to Samae san. An earlier start, as the meeting time was 8 at the dive centre. Got all the equipment together and the daily supplies ready and set off for the 45min thai-style taxi ride. Imagine your standard pick up truck, but in the back with small benches running along the the side and metal step to get in and out, and that is your thai bhat bus.

Back of the Taxi

Sitting and waiting to dive.

Here we dived at the Hardepp wreck and at Koh Chuang. On these dives we saw some blue spotted sting rays and some nudibranch along withe some other colourful fishes. Between dives you can find a spot on the sun deck and got some shut eye before the next dive, though keep one eye open, as cold water is only a splash away. On this dive trip, Rick completed his Dive Master training, so in the evening we all celebrated together. 

Ann, Dave, Rick, Me, Gordon and Andy

 

Rick doing his snorkel

The last day was back in Pattaya and we dived at Had Nuan and Koh Lan Sooth. Here we saw a large collection of coral and a verity of brightly coloured fish, also a blue spotted ray and another sting ray. Was like visiting the little mermaid and Nemo. Andy took his camera and captured some moments of the dive.

Photos from Andrew Jennings.

Me

Over the three days I was lucky enough to dive each of the instructors and make new friendships at the Pattaya Dive Centre. 

If you ever have the opportunity to dive where ever you are in the world, I strongly recommend to give it a go, you will see another side of nature you do not see every day and each dive is completely different.

Bubble, bubble, bubble. 

Lunch at the beach shack

This little treasure, found tucked away from the beach shore. While you enjoy some thai cuisine you over look the sea and the islands. This gem has been here for sometime now, I remember coming here when  I was like 14 or so, not so much has changed maybe the table and chairs. Apart from the stair case that they have built from the beach to the promenade. They have used natural found object on the beach, to decorate the stair case.

As a light lunch and a break from the morning sunbathing session, mum and I wonder along the beach to here. The fact that it is real thai food, another reason why we love it. Mum had an aromatic a Tom Yam Goong with coconut milk, its normally without the coconut milk but the milk makes it slightly less spicy and more creamy. I indulged in a Green curry soup with prawn rather than chicken.

Tom Yam Koon - with coconut milk 

Green Curry

Steamed Rice

We enjoyed our lunch with a young coconut, a coke, a glass of wine and of corse steamed rice. The food is slightly spicy, so had to ask for nic noï pet which means little spicy. You can use this where ever you go, so the chef uses less or no chilli.

Bon Appétit