Oh, journey to Mallorca, shall we count the ways in which you can fuck right off? Trespassers on the line meant trains were severely delayed or just outright cancelled. Last time this happened we were trying to get from Brighton to London to see a comedy show and all trains just terminated at Gatwick. We [...]
I've fucked about with the timelines here. I actually dived the local reef at Caye Caulker before I went to the Blue Hole then I went to Esmerelda after we'd spent a couple of days in San Pedro on Ambergris Caye pretty much just sprawling by the pool. Esmerelda and Tackle Box are San Pedro's [...]
I've wanted to dive the Great Blue Hole pretty much as soon as I got into scuba diving and learned that this particular sink hole was a thing that existed. Then people started telling me it was a shit dive and not worth the really quite hefty price tag (honestly, try not to choke when [...]
Roatan was amazing but fuck me, it was expensive. We fled to Utila which is more aimed at backpackers rather than American tourists more my age with a bit more disposable income. I mean, it's not dirt cheap but it's nice to be paying L45 for a bottle of Salva Vida at a bar rather [...]
Oh Roatan, you utter fucking budget murderer, you. My bank account is currently cowering in a corner, battered beyond all recognition. I think it might be weeping. We timed our trip to this glorious albeit expensive Caribbean island to coincide with when Karen who we met on the Antarctica cruise would be there. Oh, did [...]
I'd originally only booked two day dives and a night dive but pretty much as soon as we descended on our first dive at Long Rock I knew I was going to go again the following day. The viz was amazing, the coral was beautiful, with the water being a toasty 28°C I didn't even [...]
The city of Marsa Alam is a bit of a shithole, the seafront property is mostly unfinished, apparently due to some bizarre Egyptian law whereby if you have land you have to build on it or the government will take it off you. Anything over 70% completed is subject to tax resulting in a a [...]
Tarrant doesn't dive but on account of her being The Best Girlfriend In The World™ she gives no shits if I abandon her for a day to go and make bubbles. I thought twice in one holiday might be pushing it but I think she likes having the day to herself to sacrifice her epidermis [...]
The diving gods must have been smiling on me when I booked my day of diving a few weeks ago. Yesterday the winds were so bad there would have been no way to safely enter and exit the water but today was beautiful and calm with not a cloud in the sky, though I was [...]
I woke up with crippling stomach pains and a sphincter looser than Indonesian road rules. Holy fuck, what had I eaten to deserve this? I was meant to be doing four dives today and no way did I want to cancel any of them. I weighed up my options; I could maybe skip the first [...]
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