Once apon a time I thought that given the choice I would come back as a panda bear (mainly because they just sit around eating 2/3rds of their body weight each day) but now I think I'll come back as a fish! Mind you, given the current state of my arms I guess I would have to be a red fish that radiates heat as they swim by... attractive! But deciding to splash out (get it? Just for alice!) and do this dive course was definitely a good move - I think I'm addicte...

Hello Zanzibar! Off on a new adventure - learning to dive... should be fun! So at the hideous hour of 4.45 we got up to make sure that Alice could catch her bus and me my plane. What we discovered was that for 'security reasons' we were locked in... interesting. Mum pointed out how great that would be in a fire... So we proceeded to wake up everyone else nearby will a bit of rattling of the door and calling out. We were finally released only to be told that getti...