We did it! We've officially got our PADI open water licence. Scuba scuba scuuuuubbbbbbaaaaaaa. After the all clear from the doctor on Wednesday, we were back diving yesterday. We were glad to find out it was still just the two of us and our dive instructor. We had another confinement dive to complete in the shallows where we demonstrated skills such as hovering, fin pivot and taking off our BCD. Steph found taking off her weight belt quite tricky but got the...

Hello from the Thai island Koh Tao, where we've been for a few days now. We left Chiang Mai on Friday to endure a 24 hour journey to get here that consisted of: a tuk-tuk to the airport, aeroplane to Bangkok, taxi for one hour to the train station, sleeper train for 9 hours, minibus to the port, ferry for 3 hours to Koh Tao and finally another tuk-tuk. Planes, trains and automobiles for sure! The sleeper train was a bit of an odd one as it stopped in random p...