Alone Found

I was in Stroud a couple months back. Just wandering around the town with Angus, popping in and out of shops. There was some sort of festival on and the streets were alive with quirky activity. Colourful people danced and jostled around looking at the next passing attraction.

We stopped in a bookshop and spread out to explore, picking up books and commenting across the hushed isles. Here i came across a book, whose title eludes me, with a passage that struck a chord. I’ll try and paraphrase as best I can but I did not memorise word for word. The gist of it was;

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Rain In The Ocean

The boat left at 6am, which meant we had to be there for 5.30am which meant leaving the apartment at 5am which meant getting up at 4.45am! Just not a cool time in the morning. I had bought a cakey loaf thing and canned coffee for breakfast to help down the sea sickness tablets. I’m so glad I did take these because the crossing was very rough. We had booked the fastest ferry off the island but it was still 3 hours of lurching, swooping and buffeting to reach the main land. I did my best to remain unconscious as this was the only way I was keeping my loaf down. Continue reading Rain In The Ocean

Love Koh Tao

We have been here coming on a week now, so naturally we have found a few favourite places. Our morning routine has developed to include a coffee at our favourite house followed by some sort of sandwich or english breakfast, Thai style. This time we had eggs on toast at the coffee house and did a bit of remote work before england rose for the day. This decision was helped by the thundering rain, persuading us to stay put a while longer. Continue reading Love Koh Tao

Rave Dive

Now I’m doing “proper” dives. Open water is just all the basics your need to physically dive safely. The advanced adventurer diver course pushes you to do more. The idea being you are more independent and confident in the water and with your surroundings.

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Currently Diving

The dive training started today with a briefing meeting at 8am in a local cafe. We were told not to eat breakfast before as we could order there. Great. Except we didn’t. So I started to lose concentration and get a bit hangry (hungry-angry) by the end of the 2 hour session. I just had to have some food so Ricardo and I went straight to a cafe. He was a nice chap, who’s had a similar life path to me, in so much as he came straight out of college, got a job and now quit after 5 years to travel a bit.

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Shit Culture

Koh Tao is a significantly smaller island than Koh Pangan. There is really only one town spread along the major bays beach. I imagine it was historically 2 towns but now the resorts and bars have filled in the middle. After our relatively hard night out (my definition of going hard on a night out has dramatically changed since dancing elephant) we slept in late. Phil slept longer, maybe some jet lag, so I went for breakfast.

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Ko Tao Transfer

I’m meant to stay another night at Dancing Elephant, but Haad Rin is a ghost town now. Those who hadn’t already left yesterday, were recovered and leaving today so I figured I may as well go too. The next place on my list was Ko Tao an even smaller island north of Ko Pangan, famed for its exceptional scuba diving. Here is where Mike learnt to dive and then spent several months as an instructor for Mojo Divers.

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