Cats, cats everywhere!

We discovered that apart from all the things we did on our trip yesterday there isn't much else to do in Chiang Rai. With that in mind our plan for today was to visit a cat cafe and plan the next steps of our trip. Firstly we had to go to the bus terminal to enquire about bus tickets for tomorrow. The journey to Bangkok is something like 14 hours so we're splitting it up with a trip to another town part of the way down. Only one company operates the bus to go there and annoyingly even though their stand closes at 12 they were closed at 11.30 this morning. We did see a timetable though so we now know they have 6 buses in the morning that leave so our plan is to get there earlier tomorrow and buy a ticket first thing. Once we came back we headed to the cafe and it was nice to discover that unlike Japan you do not pay an entrance fee so we were able to enjoy the cafe more without that initial expense. The menu of drinks was extensive and they served some of the best food and drinks we've found in a cafe since we left. I had a beautiful mint milk which is just froffy milk flavoured with mint but it was so delicious. We also had a few fruit smoothies during the time we spent there. We used the time to initially play with cats but then plan the next stages of our journey and book some accommodation. For lunch Nick had prawn fried rice and I had the best scrambled eggs I've had in a long time, so very tasty. Even without the cats this cafe was well worth the visit for the food. We spent almost 4 hours there before we decided to call it a day and head back, mainly as our phones were dying. Once back though my arm was in a lot of achy pain from a bite that I have. I was sure it had become infected so we decided to visit a Boots store we'd seen and get some advice. Luckily it's the first Boots we've seen since we left the UK and it's happens to be around when we need it most. Afterwards as we were out anyway we went and had some dinner at a cute little restuarant that's tucked away on the main road. Nick was feeling a pudding so back to the cat cafe we went to have a waffle tower with ice cream and caramel sauce as well as time feeding the cats some treats. We leave tomorrow so it was back to the guest house to pack up and get ready to move out, yet again!Read more