Monday we, us & Jack and Sam, were up at 5am for our 3 hour roller coaster bus journey back to Chiang Mai. After absolutely no sleep on the bus and the fact that we all felt sick we made a spontaneous decision to be dropped at the airport, rather than the bus station to catch our 10 hour coach! We managed to buy a cheap flight to Bangkok that was to leave in a hour so enough time to check in and grab some food which is what we did, half way through our glorio...

Friday we were collected at 10:00 for our 3 hour journey North to Pai, as soon as everyone was on the minibus the driver warned us of the drive, advising us of the 762 nautiating bends in the roads and confirming he wasn't joking by notifying us that one of his customers once had a heart attack which is always warming to the ears. The journey was very bendy but we made it and no one threw up! We checked into our hostel then headed out for some lunch before spendi...

Thursday we were up at 5:15 to catch our 6:50 coach to Chiang Mai. We got breakfast from 7/11 and when we came outside there were people on their knees giving offerings to monks walking by. We waited patiently with the husband and wife who run the coach ticket shop, all of a sudden the wife started shouting at the man and he was off in a flash on his moped, turns out the coach drove past so he went on pursuit to get it to come back and collect us! It was a 5 hour...

Sunday we had a bit of a lie in then went for breakfast at 9:00 before catching the 10:15 ferry, the ferry ride again was horrendous due to the typhoon...so many people throwing up, you definitely had little chance of standing! Luckily we were on the high speed catamaran so we arrived at Chumphon within 1 hour & 30 minutes. We caught our coach and continued our long journey to Bangkok, it was dark when we arrived so we went straight to our accommodation and t...

Monday was an early start, we had to check out at 7:30 to catch the 8:30 ferry to Koh Tao. As soon as we arrived we headed to our diving school to fill in paper work then headed to our accommodation for check in at 12. We had some quick lunch then headed back to our dive school at 13:00 for our first lesson! We spent the afternoon completing module 1&2 of our theory with Mariana our Portuguese instructor, which consisted of watching videos and completing a qu...