Woke in my lovely bunkbed, bathroom was constantly occupied so opted out of a shower, i also am now covered in bites, think i got them from my nights sleep. Big ones all on my legs about 8, also got rash on my face and so as paul. Read that singapore mossies have dengie fever but think it was probably fleas! We went out soon as after making use of the wireless internet to label some photos, what a time consuming task that is. We also filled our new holdall heavy ...

MONDAY 4TH DAY 14 THAILAND TO SINGAPORE Got to airport at 0430, flight wasn’t till 1115 so but our bags in left luggage and literally wondered, Paul spent most of his time on a bench. Finally checked in at 0830 to be told that Paul’s bag was 37 kg and mine 27 kg, we said that we had been on 3 flights already and was fine and we were told we could have 46kg each on our ticket, he said max per piece was 30 kg but eventually left us on. He said we wouldn...

SUNDAY 3RD DECEMBER DAY 13 LEAVING KOH TAO Last day today, glorious day as usual, put all my photos on journal site which took long enough so no more sunbathing time could be wasted labelling them. Was determined from beginning to go to island called Koh Nang Yuan, it is 3 tiny islands connected by beaches. We got taxi long tail boat from our beach over there and had to pay £1.50 each to enter. The sea was even more clear than our beach, asked to hire a sno...

2ND DECEMBER DAY 12 KOH TAO THAILAND Today got up at 0600 for diving, big one today, 18m. Sun was up and nice and warm when we got up for breakie, luckily bank let us take out £70. All got on boat to Chumphon pinnacle (about 35 mins away), meant to be the areas best. To get into sea we have to take a giant step into the sea, we must look quite amusing, the gear is so heavy so it’s a relief. Paul was nervous for this one as we were told there was a bi...

FRIDAY 1st DAY11 KOH TAO Had to get up early to meet at 0900 for diving, was in fool mood as the annoyance of the situation hit me. However the sun was shining and we had a dive exam, we all passed, no cheating of course!. We had some better news, the shop rang and said it would be £1000 instead of £1500. Paul went to the shop and gave them £300 deposit, one of the resort guys went with him which was nice of them. Went for our first proper dive ...