hello everyone! well we're back from our scuba liveaboard trip - it was really really good... hard work, but really good. We are both now qualified PADI Open Water divers, which in a nutshell means we can dive on our own if we want too... though we're probably not ready for that just yet!... the hardest part to the practical was to remove your mask under 18metres of water - leave it off for a few seconds, then replace it and clear the water... it was really sc...

Hello bloggers! hope everyone is well, we've just had tea, pizza and pasta (very thai) and thought it was time to write another episode! Okay, a lot has happened... first things first, we've had a thai foot massage! - this consisted of roughly 40mins work on your feet, then it went into overdrive and the woman started craking toes, spines and necks! - it was scary - but we felt good after it. it was really cheap and we made a few friends when we where in there....

Hi all, Quick update while we wait for the rain to stop...in Thailand is has a quick half hour shower most days, this one decided to start while we were on the beach - wes had factor 50 on after his last sunbathing/sunburning episode... Our hotel in Patong is really nice, we've decided to have at least 4 nights here, its quite a tourity town so you don't get the hasssle you do elsewhere. We ventured out for a few beers last night and what an eye opener that w...

Hi everyone, It's time for another episode.....today we travelled down to Pang Cawp (the very tip of Phuket). We decided to brave the local bus again which turns out to be nice - its like a big old school pick up!! (it has benches in the back with no seat belts and no door at the back - if the driver accelerates hard you can feel yourself slipping towards the road - but its all fun!!) MOT? what's that!!!! Anyway, we went to Pang Cawp to see the local aquarium ...

So we've just got back from our day out. It was really good. We started the day by getting picked up by a safari jeep looking thing. We were taken to a rural looking place just on the outside of Phuket where we waited a short while for everyone to turn up. First part of the day was a trek on the back of an elephant. We started by going upstream through a shallow brook and then up a steep bank (gem was very scared!) to a large field / wood - there was a track we f...