Fishing Bay Resort Mersing

... In the end I got a bit of a stern warning to not lose a departure card again to which I said I was sorry and was allowed to continue on my way! Luckily the bus and Dave had waited for me - Dave had been hectically looking through my bag for my departure card to come and rescue me! We continued to Johor Bahru and then got a bus to Mersing which didn't seem like a great place but we just needed to stay there the night to catch a ferry to the island of Tioman. (N)

... lessons (much to the torment of our instructor which made it so much more hilarious). That night I had a quite dinner to myself, once again just taking it all in and enjoying where I was. Knowing it would be my last night in the air conditioned palace I made it count and slept the most peacefully that I have in a long time. When I woke up I sadly said goodbye to the palace that is only 4m from the water and moved to a thatched little cabin in the ...

... Thailand, to Langkawi, Malaysia's duty free island where super cheap beer, cigs, even McVities Digestive Biscuits can be obtained! Goodbye Thailand, Hello Malaysia! or as they say here, Selamat Detang! was pretty beach, very hot, although the clouds did come over and stop doing a cable car ride! Mike had a motorbike drive into him (no broken bones, just a bruised leg, sorry Mum for any drama) and that kinda sucked. we rented a motorbike here which came ...

... den Inseln angekommen. Aber was soll's! Wir halfen den Jungs schnell beim Entladen der ganzen Sachen und bezogen dann unseren einfachen, aber traumhaft gelegenen Bungalow direkt am Meer. Genial! Nach einem kleinen Nickerchen war der Regen auch vorbei und wir konnten zu einem ersten Strandspaziergang starten. Nicht, dass der Strand wirklich gross waere und der Spaziergang lange gedauert haette, aber man muss sich ja mal umschauen ;-) Neben uns sass noch ein weiteres ...

... angenehmer. Statt 2 ½ Stunden hat das Übersetzen nur ne knappe halbe Stunde gedauert. Und mit dem Speedboat hat das sogar richtig Spaß gemacht. Das konstante Geschaukele der Fahre nach Tioman war ja wirklich grauenhaft. Wir haben uns relativ schnell darauf einigen können, wer in welche Hütte geht. Wie Mädels sind in das 6-er Zimmer. Es ist das Haus mit der Palme die durch die Veranda wächst. Auch hier war alles sehr sauber ...

... east coast of malaysia. Theres honestly not alot to say in this blog as there wasnt alot to do, it was a small quiet friendly island with little beach huts dotted down the beach coast, where resident activities included: Sunbathing on t'beach. Swimming Sunbathing Eating Reading books. Repeat to fade! It sounds a tad boring but ...

... forcing us from our comfortable seats on the street). We left and started walking around back-alleys towards our guesthouse, and when we were on the other side of the street we saw, that it just had started. Well, we went for a look and it was quite cool. They had cannons shooting paper pieces up in the air (there's a word for that in English, but I can't remember it), they had a lion dancer crew as well as dragon dancers. Gong Xi Fa Cai, next year in Helsinki, for sure ...

... the camera slipped out of my hand, i could easily have been 'barbed' by it. So, after 29 dives & 4 different islands over the last 3 weeks, we ...

... wrap the weekend up, a little storm hit the island when they were suppose to leave and delayed their departure by 2hrs but they were in no hurry as they once again had to take the overnight bus to KL. They were nevertheless relieved to have managed to escape the island alive on the Sunday after a full weekend on the island - It was not all over yet though, a few days later, they met again and the first ...

... just spray themselves off with this sprayer thing and go on their way!!!!!! Gross!!! Now, when I go away, I usually try to assimilate at least a little bit, but this I could not even attempt. I now carry toilet paper with me at all times! ALL TIMES!!! This discovery lead me to ask a few questions: does the sprayer really work well? I mean how clean do you get? Also, since there's no toilet paper, do you just pull your pants up over your ...