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...

Tuesday we were picked up at 9:30 for the ferry across to Koh Phangan, the ferry took about 45 minutes. When we arrived we caught a cab to our accommodation in Ao Bang Charu, unfortunately we didn't like the room they put us in so we looked around and paid to be upgraded to another, when moving all our stuff it started raining really heavy so we got quite wet! As the weather wasn't really allowing us to venture very far we went to the restaurant on site and had s...

Tuesday we were up early for our journey to Koh Samui, we were picked up by taxi and taken to the coach station, our coach took about 6 hours to Don Sak where we caught the ferry across to the island which took about an hour. We were pleased to arrive at a very pleasant hotel in Chaweng and have been upgraded from the 28th to their nicer hotel down the road as they overbooked! We dropped our bags and headed straight out for food and a wonder. We were back in the ...