We again spent time by the pool and snorkelling in the sea. With nothing much to do when trying to avoid the ridiculously hot sun, we held a competition of who can hold their breath and stay underwater for the longest - Dave can do an impressive 1minute 50seconds and Claire could only manage 1minute 20seconds...better luck next time! We decide to stop when we realised that we probably looked dead whilst floating on the surface of the water, with heads down fo...

Spent most of the day switching between the pool and the shade as it just unbelievably hot! We did however have 10mins of heavy rain which was really nice, but this was then followed by an even hotter sun after! In the evening with not much money to spend we went to a bar and watched City of Men before heading back for an early night.

We struggled to get up this morning as were still catching up from our 'sleeper-bus'. Hard work is being a traveller ;0) When we did surface we the saw the rest of the morning snorkelling round the beach and playing in the pool. We had tea at a Thai restaurant which serves the best Thai food, but also serves it really slowly. We then went out for a drink with a French couple who we met yesterday on the dive boat and had a few beers together while practicing o...

We made our way to the restaurant on the beach and passed the morning looking out into the clear sea before heading back to get ready for our first 'fun' dive! We planned on just the one dive as it's quite expensive for us. We were really nervous as this was the first time we had no instructor or somebody to help us - it was just us and a guide and a couple of other divers. The first thing we noticed was that the metal floor of a dive boat that had been sat in th...

We were woken up at 2am to a woman screaming at us. The bus had stopped, and a woman with a megaphone was 'kindly' telling everyone that the bus had stopped for a 'very long time' and we should purchase some food from her all night cafe. She 'very nicely' repeated this over and over again until everyone was off the bus and ensuring that noone was able to sleep through it. After an hour we set off, and then after another hour the bus stopped again, with all the l...