Today we started our advanced open water diving course. The first of our 2 dives today was our peak performance buoyancy which basically fine tuned how we float underwater, and move around with out sinking to o fast or going up too fast. The second was the navigation, we were dreading this one a bit as we were so appalling back in Vietnam with the compass, but we managed it really well, we had to swim a perfect square over the coral and a few other exercises as...

Had a well earned lie in this morning to avoid the rain. We spent the day on the beach not daring to venture too far into the water snorkeling as Claire spotted a few jelly fish. Oh well, more sunbathing for Claire and more Shade bathing for Dave. We had a really nice meal and then went to a bar that was showing the Monaco Grand Prix, After about an hour of watching it, we realised the reasons we have never watched many Grand Prix before and agreed that we would...

The supposed advantages of night buses are you get to sleep for all the journey without wasting daytime hours and you dont have to watch the suicidal bus drivers play chicken with your lives, you arrive at your destination early in the morning getting a full day feeling great and best of all you save on a night's acommodation. At 5o'clock this morning we were in Mersing harbour, tired from getting hardly any sleep because of all the swerving and slamming on f...

Checked out of the hostel for definite this morning and with not wanting to spend any money we clock watched for 12 hours in the hostel until it was finally time to leave. It was thrilling. We boarded the bus and prepared ourselves for 6 hours of being smacked around the head by the little girl sat behind us.

Checked out of the hostel, lugging our bags down 4 flights of stairs. Headed over to the bus station to get the overnight tickets to Mersing where we can then go on to Pulau Tioman - again our luck with transport continues - bus is fully booked so we cant go. So its another night in KL and getting some funny looks off the hostel staff with checking in again after we had just checked out only 10mins earlier - back up the 4 flights of stairs and into the same dir...