We are officialy advanced open water divers and can now dive anywhere in the world upto 30 meters! Over the last few days we have done 6 dives, one being a night dive (terrifying) and another going down to 30m. The night dive I was so scared about, jumping off the boat into pitch black water and going under with all the sea creatures which come alive at night but it was suprisingly relaxing, our instructor gave me his torch which was really bright to ensure I fel...

Well after the most horrific journey so far we have finally arrived and start our advanced diving course tommorow. We set off on a night bus from Bangkok to chumphon we're we supposed to catch a ferry to Koh Toa- this was supposed to take around 9/10 hours altogether. However due to it being monsoon season the weather was too bad and the waves too big for the ferry to take off fom chumphon so we had to go to a different dock, another 5 hours extra on the coach, n...

Quick stop off just for one night as we missed our connection train down to Koh Toa due to the flight cancelation and delay. Arriving in Bangkok for the second time was a breeze, we we're through immigration got our bags and on the sky train to Koa San road all within less than 30mins...Bangkok professionals or what, we didn't look like confused tourists for once. It's so much cooler now than it was in March, we can actually go on a walk without looking like we'r...

Last night was our last night in Hanoi and in Vietnam altogether. And I have loved most of it, unfortunately the last part in halong bay ruined it and really did change Jordan's view completely of the people here although I said I would give it a second chance...maybe I spoke too soon. We arrived at the airport for our flight to Bangkok only to find it had been cancelled- apparently we should have got an email a week ago telling us this although we never did. So ...

Back on dry land on our way back to Hanoi for our last bowl of chicken noodle soup before a flight tommorow. Halong bay was beautiful and does live upto the photos however I would never stay on a boat or on the island again. I would just do a one day tour of cruising around all of halong bay and maybe a kayaking into the caves and then back to mainland for the night. Jord is still furious about it and while waiting for the bus he was ever looking for the guy who ...