The blackness was all consuming. A giant tarlike hug. It was all around. An immensely sense of dread. Silence was his stealthy companion creeping In unnoticed. The lack of noise was so loud it felt as though the entire sea was shouting at me. A massive emptiness surrounded me as I hung in what felt like suspended animation. Was time still even moving? Was I moving? Was I even awake.... I walloped the torch against my leg for the third time and wi...

So today was a bit mad, Dive brief began at 8.30 so we were up super sharp? Breakfast of fruit, yoghurt and pancake consumed with haste before trying to slip in to a boiling hot latex rubber wetsuit. Remembering once a wise person told me I would be more slippery when wet a quick shower solved the problem! So wetsuit on, Jaws theme running through my head we enter the water. That creepy dread begins to fill me as I realise once again my life is solely depen...

When the nights draw In, the piles of marking start to grow and I'm marking hundreds of prelims remind me of this week in October. I'm sooo blessed. I have dived in some of the most beautiful waters in the world, sea kayaked and now bronzing over looking a private bay over a spectacular Infinity pool with a chilled can of LLB. I'm away with 15 truly amazing young people who are a pleasure to be away with. I'm now a certified open water diver and I think under ...

Well.... This is horrible, disgusting I can't believe I have to stay here for 7 days. Golden sands, 32c heat, palm trees with Coconuts everywhere. Fresh fruit ad demand and every meal is local seafood caught that day on the island. I've been through the theory test for scuba passing with 90% and now completed half the practical skills for my open water. The water is 29c and feels like a bath and there are amazing titles swimming with us. So now I find my sel...

A lesson in Degustation. It was reminiscent of our tour of the Moët ad Chandon Last Year but at the same time nothing like it. Actually the only similarity was casks are kept cool underground! I'd spent half an hour climbing up the slippery slopped ancient cobble track leading out the rear of the village passing the remains of an ancient Byzantine empire until I came upon what looked like a mine shaft leading right into the heart of the mountain from which I c...