Well you'll all be delighted to hear that we have now both survived our PADI open water scuba certification! It took four days, and then we loved it so much that we decided to take the advanced course. With just one day off to rerlax, it was then another two days of work. In the normal course we learned the basics of how to survive underwater. Unfortunately we didn't encounter any sharks, but there was LOADS of other very cool stuff. Ther advanced cou...

Well then, as of tomorrow we will both be fully certified PADI open water scuba divers! Tonight we were going to celebrate having passed our final written exam this morning, until we were informed that our final day's practical diving will be kicking off at 7.30am, which rather binned those plans. So an early night it is, writing to all you poor souls back in Aberdeen working. As you can see, this is hard work here too! And you thought we were on holiday... ...