Hello all! Well, we've been having an amazing couple of days on Koh Tao island here in Thailand. We are incredibly relaxed and even getting up from the sunlounger is an effort now unfortunately! But we have been having a great time learning how to dive. We signed up for an Open Water SCUBA course which is a 4 day intensive course that aims to get you that confident that you can actually dive by yourself (with your buddy) and without the aid of an instructor. We...

Hello! Well we finally made it to Koh Tao island and it was really worth the journey. We left Bangkok last night at 7.30 on another overnight bus. Again, no sleep even with the aid of 'sleeping tablets' (they were probably paracetemol or something). We had been told that the bus would arrive in Chumphong at around 5.45am and we would only have to wait about an hour for our ferry journey to the island. We actually arrived in Chumphong at 2.00pm and had to sleep on...