Well, the day dawned much the same as all the others - bright, sunny and very hot even at 7am. We headed out on the boat for our deep diving adventure; I was still apprehensive but fortunately almost everybody else had not gone down to 30 metres either so we were all in the same boat (ha ha). After quite a lengthy briefing we got geared up and jumped into the blue. It felt like we were descending on the mooring line forever but finally after a short swim we ha...

We finally found a luxury coach in South East Asia that was exactly that! We journied from Bangkok to the harbour in pure luxury - fully reclining velvet seats, blankets, air con, water, toilets and a DVD to watch - it was almost too good to be true....the catamaran ride over to Koh Tao soon put an end to our blissful state as we bumped up and down in our seats for 2 hours. It was worth the journey though when we arrived and set foot on the warm sand and looked...