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Co-Working Versus Cafés

September 2, 2018 / by / in Food, Work / No comments

Considering the Café Calorie Bomb

I’ve written before about the on-going nomad debate: Co-working or “Café Bureau.” In a post on Remoters.net, I compared the price tag of working in a coworking space versus a café in 5 popular digital nomad destinations. From the perspective of value, the options are fairly equal in some parts of the world, and in others there’s a clear winner.

Coworking spaces have fees that can seem high, but if you’re going to sit all day in a café and you aren’t an entitled jerk, you must spend money. Upstanding nomads will argue that you are obligated to make a purchase every few hours. This may mean moving from one café to another, but if you put in a 4- to 8-hour day, you’re looking at more than one or two items.

However, a true analysis of this debate must consider all parts of the cost-benefits equation; your well-being is affected by more than the amount of cash in your pocket.

5 Tips for Cheap Eats in Thailand

October 11, 2012 / by / in Food, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Travel + Escape / No comments

If you venture off the beaten path in Thailand, away from Bangkok, Chiang Mai, or the southern beaches, the English signs and menus start to fade away, and Western faces are fewer and further between. In a city like Surat Thani, where the few tourists are usually on their way to somewhere else, it’s not hard to walk a few blocks away from the hotels near the ferry pier and eat your fill for $5 a day.

5 Tips for Eating Like a Local in Thailand

October 4, 2012 / by / in Asia, Food, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Travel + Escape / No comments

The two things that everyone seems to know about Thailand are that (1) the food is great, and (2) the food is cheap. But, if you wander away from tourist areas and join the locals for a meal, you’ll find that the food is even better and even cheaper. If you want to eat like a local in Southern Thailand, here are a few things you should know.

20 Things that Are Awesome about Thailand (Surat-style)

August 28, 2012 / by / in Food, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Top Picks / No comments

I’ve been here in Surat Thani for just under two weeks. Been working quite a bit, and no matter how hard I try, it takes me all day to do half a day’s work here. Life is slow, and inexpensive, and Thai people are so pleasant that I can see why it’s so easy for ex-pats to get lost here, never to return (and I’ve met several of them—both men and women). Here’s a list of things that have made my two weeks quite enjoyable.

Look for the Thai Fonzie

August 19, 2012 / by / in Food, Southeast Asia, Thailand, Travel / 4 comments

Finding my way in Surat Thani

I managed to make it to Muk Thani 1, Soi 1 on my own, with some instructions from C&C, and the knowledge that the local residents of Surat Thani aren’t interested in taking farang for a ride. It took a few minutes to secure a tuk-tuk for a price that wasn’t too far over the going rate. But shortly after you’ve left the “tourist zone” of the bus station, where island-goers transfer buses and get tuk-tuks to the ferry pier, you seems to quietly slide into Thai life, a life in which you can’t speak the language and certainly can’t read the street signs.