Myself and Robin are now qualified PADI divers! We've had a very stressful 3 days of 6.30am starts, exams, open water dives and exercises, we are very glad it's over and extremely tired (I also suspect I have decompression sickness, but its probably just sleep deprivation...or hypercondria). We've done 4 open water dives and 2 confined water dives in the 3 days. Today we got close to turtles and metre-long reef sharks, which was pretty cool. What was not so cool...

Currently laying on beach at Hippies bar (which has become our regular haunt). Today we spent our third day with the girls we met on our first night, they're a good laugh and it's been fun few days. Yesterday we had a chilled drink and watched footie while the girls got their tattoos (they were v nervous - was glad I rethought getting another tattoo!). Then we all went for quick drink together at the rooftop bar which is very cool but the frozen daqueris were ...

I love Koh Phi Phi!! We only just got here so nothing else to say but it's laid back, beautiful and we're currently sitting on the beach at dusk having a Chang and listening to some guy playing guitar. Am-a-zing.

Made it through the night in our treehouse (even though I swear over the noise of the wildlife outside I could hear the mosquitos calling 'Tina, we're coming for you...'). Last night was v good, we ended up in Hippies bar on the beach looking out to the ocean watching a guy playing guitar whilst a huge thunder storm lit up the sky behind him. After half an hour though the sky's opened to a huge tropical downpour which lasted ages and got to the point everyone w...