well today (13th sept) we started our first day of scuba diving at crystal dive resort in ko tao. this was generally an intro into what wel be doing over the next few days and we also watched a few videos aswell as fill out some question papers. we then retreated to our free accomodation which was ... lets say basic but on the plus side it had a tv! we have had no hot water and our bed cover was a large branded towel . day 2 (14th) today we met our instructor ca...

So, Sunday was the day we went all round bankok which started off with a taxi to the bus station to dump the bags. Then we jumped in a taxi, and discovered the importance of pronunciation because they took us to the wrong place way outside bangkok city but got to the grand palace eventually after a 2 hour taxi round bangkok! definetly got to see the sights anyway n it was cheap so was all good. So we seen the palaces, the giant swing, bangkok city centre and ri...

this is our first post since leaving. so far everything has went realy good. flights havent been delayed and we havent got lost (yet). Dubai airport was massive , when we arrived it was a 15 minute walk to our next gate but luckily along the way we found a cinnibon shop!!! now thats us in bankok first night staying at the nasa vegas hotel which is very nice. the room is very nice aswell and everything is realy cheap. after sampling some of authentic cuisine fr...