We started the day at the hotel with the normal alarm call and the resulting plan to be at the hotel reception by 8 o'clock by the your operator - but after ten minutes with no show of the minibus we realised that we had set are alarms one hour early - so I came up with a grate emergency plan of going for a coffee with Clare by the hotel pool which had it's own version of Starbucks, it made a nice change to look out of the window to a vista of colour rhododendron...

We then headed and arrived at another island complex but this time we pulled along side a larger pontoon and was told to make sure that we had waterproof containers for our camera's etc (thank god for my brilliant waterproof dry fit bags) so we all went onto the jetty not not quite knowing what to expect. We soon saw multitude of manned canoes waiting to pick us up in pairs, I thought that it was just to get us over to the island "No" it was for a major canoe to...

As the names of this island suggests is where they filmed the "man with the golden gun" despite us making extensive searches we could not find knick nak anywhere. When the motor boat reversed back into the bay to allow us to disembark, a quick readjustment of my Rohan trouser, I lost the lower section of my trouser legs to the astonishment of some of the crew which gave us our first opportunity to wade through the lapping waves of the beach which felt as warm a...

Again Ethiad airways have come up trumps with a fantastic service (it does help having a bed to sleep in and a few brandy's - to help me sleep) despite cleres blanket falling onto my side! Travel tip - don't get behind a large group of travellers coming in from the Indian sub continent at immigration ( it takes ages and ages and ages, to the extent our poor travel guide was convinced we were not coming. She met us with great relief and soon had us wisked away ...