SATURDAY Not much to give you about today as we were on a boat for 3 hours from 8:30am, and then transferred onto a coach for the remaining 9 hours back to Bangkok. Maybe it was because we were back in the hustle and bustle of a city, but Bangkok felt strangely like home, and we went out for a bite to eat before gladly slipping into bed in our air-conditioned room at the Sawasdee Banglumpoo Inn. SUNDAY Our last full day in Bangkok was designated solely t...

THURSDAY Today we had yet another leisurely start to the morning, and sat on the beach with our books until about 4pm! After our extremely lazy day we thought we had better get some exercise so we walked into Thongsala again and scoped out the shopping possibilities, and went to find some dinner. For a change, we went to a really nice seafood restaurant and Kim had whole steamed sea bass with ginger, and I had mixed seafood noodles. The meal was gorgeous and we...

MONDAY (night) Everyone got together tonight to watch the diving videos. There was some decent footage of our group, but the DVD cost 2,500 Baht, so it was a souvenir I was going to have to do without! After watching the DVD we went out to 'Choppers Bar and Grill' in nearby village Sai ree for dinner, then moved on to Pure bar for apres-dive drinks. We didn't go too mad, as we had to be up for a boat to Koh Phangan in the morning, but we had a good night regard...

SUNDAY Another day of diving lay in store for me but a relative lie-in until 9:30 meant that I wasn't as bleary-eyed as the previous day. In the morning we had our final exam to make sure we were all up to speed on the theory, and then it was into the no-nonsense diving for the afternoon. We set sail from the resort at around 12:30 and moored up at Mango Bay on the northern end of the island for our dives. The first dive was just to get us accustomed to the w...

Another three day installment to catch up on so I'll get straight to it! THURSDAY After booking our trip down to Koh Tao and Koh Panghan yesterday, we had the whole day to kill before catching another overnight coach at 8pm. Therefore a lazy morning and preparation for the week away took us all the way up to check out time at midday. After checking out, we caught a cab to Dusit Zoo, where we listlessly passed another good chunk of the day before returning to ...