Last night was off the chaaain! We got the whole of Dan's tour group up on the balcony of his room to start pre-drinking...at 11pm. After polishing off a free crate of beer (some Aussies gave Dan?!) and some 'American Honey' whisky we went out to 'Woodys', which is a kind of surf shack style bar with a really laid back vibe and good music. The madness began when Lenny wasn't allowed in for being 'too drunk', when it was actually blatantly obvious they just didn'...

What another crazy day! Today we had the first lot of our assessment. Got up at 7am with a really bad back, and was freaking out that I wouldn't be able to do the ocean mission. We met the assessor at 8am and started what turned out to be a ridiculous amount of theory/paper work. 8am till 4pm was just paper work and the practical 'advanced resuscitation' stuff. It was really interesting doing CPR etc on the dummy but by about 2pm theory was really starting to d...

What a morning!! I got up at 7am and the swell did not disappoint! Despite my back being pretty sore I went for a 3 hour surf, and had what was one of the best sessions of my life. When we first went out it was about 4ft and clean, and the longer we were out the better it got. After about an hour it had increased to about 6ft and was just barreling wave after wave on the same peak. I watched Lenny almost get a 6ft barrel which was craaaazy, wish I had a camera! ...

Well today has been a...new...experience that's for sure! I got up at 4:30am with Lenny to watch the Real Madrid V B.Munich Champions League semi final. We decided to make a run of it, so ended up knocking back a 6 pack of beers and 2 goon's each in the process. Unsurprisingly we were pretty merry after drinking on an empty stomach, so we're having a great time! Real lost 2-1 and we went for breakfast and coffee at 7am. Both still feeling rather drunk we went ou...

Our lesson was meant to be at 9:30am today so I got up and had breakfast etc, to find the surf was so small it was actually called off. While the others watched a surf movie I managed to join in on another lesson, which went really well and I enjoyed. After the torrential rain, the sea went crystal clear yesterday to the same colour as Porthcawl over night. It's absolutely disgusting - all the sediment and debris has been washed out the creek, so we are having t...