Heading home again. A divemaster... Accomodation List 1,2 Sawasdee House 3 Overnight Bus 4-32 Valentine Bungalows - Koh Phi Phi 33 On-on Guesthouse - Phuket Town 34 Chalong Mansion - Chalong 35 -54 Valentine Bungalows 55-59 Lanta Riviera - Koh Lanta 60 Overnight Train to Bangkok - Surat Thani 61 My House - Bangkok

So Louise, has somewhat thrown me a curve-ball. Whilst i expected to spend Xmas on Phi and complete a few more little dives and have a long slow goodbye, she has a wild idea about spending Xmas down on another island in the South of Thailand, Koh Lanta. She needs to be in Australia for New Years Eve, but convinces me that we should have a bit of a laugh first.... So off we push down ever South, find ourselves a wonderful beachside hotel and spend my last few d...

So, completing the Stress test finishes off my Divemaster course. I am now qualified to lead you out on the reef if you have an open water licence. Fancy that. Will i ever use it? Who knows. Well i say i am a Divemaster, well as any DIT knows you are not 'officially' a DM until you have completed the 'Snorkel Test'. Put simply, any new DM gets stitched up in the bar by having to down as much booze as your Instructor can convince the barman to give you. All...

Finishing the Diving..... Over the past two months, ive been on a bit of a detox....i gave up smoking as i kept reading somewhere its bad for you!! And i only had two beers in the whole of November.... Mainly because of the diving, you see.....but then just when i get close to the end, i decide to break the ban and all hell breaks loose.... I only popped out for one, the owner of my dive shop, Shay, had opened a new bar in the centre of town, so myself and And...

Mosquitos, Mosquitos, Mosquitos. As every tourist will agree they are the bain of your life....for me they are just the sneakiest of all animals and i am on a crusade to eradicate them? Why? Becuase they dont play fair.....ok, i have really succulent tasty blood.....thats obvious....so i take precautions to ensure they dont eat me with deet......take that you f***ers.... anyway, they have been ganging up on me at night. I sleep in pajamas with a towel over ...