We said goodbye to the family the next morning after breakfast and went and had a mid-morning nap. We resurfaced at 11am and got ready to resume our positions next to the pool.

Edd and I played a few rounds of frizbee during the course of the afternoon and he made lunch at 1pm. I was greeted with a fantastic tray of sandwiches and G&T's - pint size: we were moaned at by the owner that any drink smaller than a pint was a waste of time. We threw our manners and etiquette out of the mosquito net covered windows. We liked this guy.

New guests had arrived late the night before and we joined them for dinner that evening. She was from China and he was from France; they lived in Singapore together at the moment, but she was moving to London to study further and he was going back to France to work. They discussed what meeting each others parents was like and he was told by her parents that he would not be allowed to marry her if he did not speak Mandarin! She then continued to explain why Chinese was the most difficult language to learn, in her opinion, and typed 'hao' into her phone to demonstrate: pages upon pages of different symbols appeared and they all represented the same sound, you had to pick which symbol best suited your sentence depending on what you were trying to say. There was no link between pronunciation and the written form of Chinese, like you get in other languages, with over 3000 symbols to learn; we all agreed that we felt sorry for him and suggested she learn French instead.

We went to bed relatively early from the relaxing day at the pool, we hadn't done much in the last 2 days, so we were working 100% according to plan.