Thailand Not Encompassed! We headed for Koh Tao and spent 6 days becoming open water and advanced open water divers! It was like being back at school, early study sessions followed by an exam!!! We often had to remind ourselves that we were on holiday but it was worth it in the end! Our diving instructor Wajna was great! We weren't too keen on climbing over boats to get to ours and there were a few accidents! Lisa's leg looked like it had been through a...

Thailand Encompassed Tour Once we reached Bangkok, we had got over our late arising and felt a little calmer! As we came out of arrivals we were greeted by a Thai man with a board saying Lisa and Clair, we sadly got quite excited! We were then taken to the New World Lodge Hotel in Bangkok, it was lovely and clean and not as basic as we thought! That night we met our group and our tour leader Sophie! There were 18 of us all together, Kathy, Dave, Audr...

London to Tokyo! Well after the tears had been wiped away, we started to feel very excited about our trip, the journey to Heathrow flew and we were bang on time for checking in (3 hours before!) That was until we arrived at the Virgin check-in desks, much to our distress we discovered that we had to queue for over an hour and a half to check in because it was any desination check-in! That meant we had an hour to eat, buy some perfume and buy a camera!!! ...