So what have we done since our last blog entry, when we left you last we were 3 days in to our open water SCUBA diving course, so after acing the exam we are now proud owners of certified SCUBA diving licenses allowing us to reach depths of up to 65ft....and scuddies (scuba buddies) for life, although not be it for two very unflattering pictures on our cards! Feeling as if we had worked so hard and drank relatively little, we felt the need to wet our beaks and l...

We are now over a week into our grand adventure and it has been an eye-opening and exciting first 10 days! The first seven days were somewhat of a blur, with jetlag, drunken antics and lazy days all seemingly rolling into one. Once we finally arrived in Ko Phangan after an eleven hour plane, a 12 hour train, a three hour bus and then a 2 hour boat we were met with one of the strangest cultural differences from our usual western ways; moped taxis! After starting...