Beautiful sunny day yesterday. Up early because we needed to get the 8.30 shuttle to Sairee Beach. Met with our instructors from DiveMasters - Mark and Emma, two English instructors who were both really lovely, very friendly and helpful. After doing a short written review, it was time to do our scuba review out in the water. As we had not been diving in over 6 months we had to once again demonstrate certain skills such as mask removal, swapping regs, using your ...

Had planned on going diving this morning, but once again we woke up to a thunderstorm, this one worse than yesterday, heavy rain and rough seas so thought we would give it a miss for today. Went for a swim in the rain and now having some chill out time (see photo!!!). Have massages booked for this afternoon so we should be pretty relaxed by then. :)

After a long travel day - about 14 hours, we arrived at Deva Samui about 11.00pm on Friday night, 30th March. Had a lovely relaxing day yesterday, went for a long long walk, actually we were trying to find somewhere to change money but no luck! Didn't really matter as we had some money left over from a previous trip (abt $85) so that was enough for now. Later we came back the hotel and spent the rest of the afternoon in the pool. The hotel is lovely, away from...