As I come to the end of my time in Thailand, I thought I’d look back on what I’ve been up to. A review of sorts.
I started off in Bangkok, my first few days were spent orientating myself, and then disorientating myself at nights on the ol Changs! I went on a tuk-tuk tour of […]
Tuesday 14th was the infamous full moon party, where thousands of people gather on a kilometre stretch of sand on Haad Rin beach, Ko Phagnan, to celebrate the full moon (or just get steaming really.) I estimate there was about 15,000 people there, and I was glad it lived up to the hype.
We went out […]
The speedboat left Nai Yang around 7.15am on Saturday and anchored around the far side of Island 4 just over two hours later. A massive eagle seemed to be following our boat as we navigated between the islands. We geared up and took a long stride off the side into the sea, and we each […]
The final day of our Open Water Diver course finished today. Yesterday was our first sea dive, we went on a longtail to some reef about 1km off the Nai Yang shore and went down about 7 metres. We swam around for a bit for the first dive just to get the hang of it, […]
My advance into the world of aquatic discovery began on Monday, as mentioned before, with Joe, Kirsten and Chris. We watched three modules of a DVD introducing everything and going over the basics, then in the afternoon we ventured into the swimming pool at Pearl Village resort, fully geared up.
The first day we were taught […]
Joe drove down to Rawai yesterday, along with Kirsten, Sam who works for Paradise Diving, Chris who’s just joined us from good old Brackley, and I. The reason for the journey was simple: a proper English breakfast. We’d heard whispers of a place down south called Enigma where one could purchase bacon which wasn’t just […]
I flew down to Phuket after a brief stop in Bangkok on Thursday morning. My brother Joe and his girlfriend met me at arrivals and we went back to their rented bungalow where I’m taking advantage of the spare bedroom. The last few days have been spent chilling on the beach by day and necking […]