Time is all relative So we left France on Saturday and flew to the UK - change of time zone goes back one hour (so far so good). Overnight on Saturday the clocks went back another hour for the end of British summer time... okay, still following that and got the benefit of a later start to catch our flight. Land in Havana, the virgin crew tell us the new time, so we put our watches back another 5 hours. The iphone picked up the local signal and concurred, so ...

First Impressions We disembarked (being English, we didn't deplane) into the hot, damp, musty tropical air of the airport and speed walk to the passport control. My brother's advice before we left "every person you overtake is 5 minutes less in the queue". When put like that, we discovered a newfound purpose to our pace. Surprisingly, there were loads of passport people working and each queue was less than 10 people deep, so better than we've encountered many ti...

Day Date Itinerary Activity Overnight Location Saturday 29/10/2011 Fly to UK Toulouse to Heathrow (dep 18.05 TLS, arrive 18.55 LHR ) Winchfield Sunday 30/10/2011 Fly out Gatwick to Havana (dep 12.10 LGW arrive 17.05 Hav) Havana Monday 31/10/2011 Havana Explore Havana Havana Tuesday 01/11/2011 Havana Explore Havana Havana Wednesday 02/11/2011 Havana Explore Havana Havana Wednesday 03/11/2011 Las Terrazas Pick up hire car & drive to Las Terrazas Las Terrazas Fr...

Our first week of diving in Indonesia has been a mixed experience. The diving has been amazing, but the viral stomach bug that was doing the rounds not so much! The 3 day bug literally knocks the stuffing out of you and at least half the guests went down with it at some point during their stay. Back to the good parts.... Jon and I completed our 100th dives on our first day here - quite a landmark for me, as I never intended to love diving given my previous path...

Our next 3 weeks of adventure revolve entirely around diving. A typical day is as follows: wake up, go and set up kit and go for 1st dive, come back for breakfast, then go for 2nd dive, quick rest and lunch then in for 3rd dive. Finally come back to the room, shower to get rid of all the salt, sleep, get ready for dinner and if feeling really wild have a cocktail first, then back to bed ready to start the whole process over again. Partly due to exhaustion and du...