New Heaven Resort Ko Tao

... about the whole thing, but she did really well with it and got through it successfully. We are now certified for life and can go diving any time we want to in the future. So now that we are officially dive certified, we are going to go on the Great Barrier Reef once we get to Australia. <br> The rest of the time we just hung around on the beach and enjoyed some of the nightlife. We hit it off with our dive instructor and a couple of other dive students so we ...

After our slightly disappointing stay in Koh Phangan, we ventured to the next island north; Koh Tao. <br><br>After a quick boat trip and taxi ride we arrived at Sairee Beach on the west coast of Koh Tao and after finding a beachside bungalow we made ourselves at home. In the afternoon I relaxed on the beach whilst Caroline was feeling a little under the weather and went to bed to sleep off an early start. Next morning we awoke to find Caroline had a fever ...

... then you can shake a stick at and plenty of booze-fuelled dancing. Steve, Lenny and me had lost the Chileans and Julien, but gof chatting with some girls and eventually went on the dance floor to party. A lot of people were covered in fluorescent paint and dancing, but many of them seemed not to be mingling a great deal. Despite there being 2,000-3,000 people I felt underwhelmed as I was expecting a much greater number of people and it to be a bit more insane ...

... real tomatoes in it. I gave it a valiant effort but after a few chips I had totally lost my appetite. Gabe tried it too since we were reasonably certain the chips had zero corn in them and even he couldn&#8217;t manage to eat them. He kept trying to get me to eat something else but I seriously wanted nothing more to do with eating at that point. When the movie was finished we ambled back towards our restaurant. Tired from a long day in the sun ...

... Bar &amp; Grill, the food portions are gigantic and the free wifi meant we could get in touch with family back home.<br> <br>The weather wasn't the greatest while on Koh Tao and it was mostly cloudy. We seemed to be getting the tail-end of Typhoon Ketsana which pummeled the Philippines and Vietnam. A lot of lives were lost so its fair to say we got off lightly. Also we found out later in the week that an earthquake and tsunami hit parts of Indonesia ...

... les onades. Una delicia! Les trobare a faltar (el meu fetge segurament no tant). Han estat una companyia intermitent pero constant des del viatge en autocar a Hanoi.<br><br>Un altre cop no tinc cap foto de la meva estada en aquesta illa ja que a la platja ja vaig prou carregat amb la tovallola, la crema, el llibre, les ulleres de sol i el cocktail tropical com per a sobre dur la camera de fotos. Haureu de fer servir Google una altra vegada.<br><br>

... are competing that the price is being driven down all the time, with many dive shops on Koh Tao offering drastically discounted accommodation while you are being trained and long term discounts on diving after you are qualified.<br><br>NB we don't have any identification books with us so the captions for the pictures are a bit general (Simon please forgive us)! We're more than happy to hear of any mistakes or omissions to update the blog at a later stage.

Just a quick short update for you. Been in Ko Tao now for 2 full days and leave for Ko Samui at 10 tomorrow morning. What have we been up to? The past few days have been spent lazing on a beach, where the sand is white and uber fine. The sea is a lovely greeny colour and crystal clear. We have been playing ...

... growing old sucks the fat one and speaking of which (growing old, not sucking the fat one) my 34th birthday is in 10 days. good god how did i get to be 34 ****ing years old? how did this happen? i want to talk to management and get a refund or something because the speed in which my life is passing is not normal...there seems to be a malfunction because im pretty sure i was 18 about 3 weeks ago.....i want an investigation. I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it anymore