A swim in the sea was the first thing on our agenda again today. This time we spent a good few hours out there, enjoying the warmest waters I have ever swam in. That includes swimming pools, paddling pools and any other sort of pool I have been in. At one point my wife was swimming past me and I wanted to get her attention. Her ears were under water, so she didn't hear me call out her name. I decided I would tap her gently on her side to grab her notice as she f...

This morning we decided that the Andaman would be the place to spend our a.m. For those of you who don't know what the Andaman is (I was a member of this elite group until very recently), it is a sea. It turns out that this sea is part of an ocean. I did not know that could happen. All this time I thought you were in one or the other. Today, I swam in both. At the same time. I really think they should market this more: "Swim in the sea and the ocean today". I thi...

The day began with breakfast (you can see a pattern emerging here). I am sure a daily review of our morning dietary habits are getting tiresome, so from this day forth I will stop talking about breakfast. Assume I have eaten breakfast unless informed otherwise. Assume said breakfast was acceptable. I will give a mention to the monkeys who kindly joined us for breakfast, making our meal a little more entertaining. We had booked a hire car to be delivered to our h...

We checked out of the hotel in KL this morning, excited at the trip ahead. The drive to the airport was comfortable (Denny came to pick us up again). The flight to Langkawi was an hour long. When we approached Langkawi, its natural beauty was wonderful to behold from the air. We looked down at the rainforests and beaches in awe. My lovely wife then asked me if there were any sharks that resided in Langkawi. I reassured her that there were none (I hope I'm right...