It was our last breakfast on the boat; we got up and were sitting around the table at 8am, having ordered a coffee latte and juice. It was strange how quickly you get used to sharing a space with a random collection of people: the American mum and daughter, mum is a lawyer and daughter is starting a job in politics, the family that consisted of dad and daughter, dad being seemingly well connected in the Indonesian world and named dropped a bit about vice presiden...

We'd all discussed, at dinner the night before, the fact that we were on a sailing boat that had, up to this point, not sailed yet. Edd was used to being on sailing boats that only used their sails really, so he was a bit disappointed.It was announced after breakfast that the sails would be put up in the afternoon, while we were on our way to one of the Komodo Islands - we'd noticed that things we discussed suddenly happened the next day; the walls obviously had ...

We had breakfast while we were motoring to the northern part of the main Komodo Island. (There are many, it’s a collection of islands actually). I suddenly wasn’t feeling too good and took some antibiotics and had a small nap while Edd played trains on my iPad. His mum gave me immodium, which in the end was the saving grace to my condition - my condition improved and I managed to continue the day as normal. We dropped anchor and were taken to the bea...

The day started off slowly - I'd woken up at 6am and carried on reading my book while Edd slept. By 8am it was time to get up and his dad came down to see if we were joining them for breakfast.I was still in a bad mood from the day before, and the update on the days itinerary only made it worse. After breakfast Edd and his dad went and spoke to one of the many chiefs, about what they thought of the days activities and how they were running the cruise. Which was t...

Apparently there was an option to do a snorkel or dive at 7am. Edd's foiks agreed with us that we'd give it a skip. We went up on deck at around 8.20am and had breakfast with them - the divers didn't get back until 9am and they joined us for breakfast.We went out for a morning snorkel on one of the nearby beaches, our boat wasn't moving again until the family arrived, so we were staying in one place until about 2pm. (Again Edd and his folks were not pleased with ...