The island of Koh Lanta kicked off our Thai adventure. Or rather Koh Lanta Yai, which neighbours the smaller Koh Lanta Noi; not unsurprisingly yai means large and noi means small in Thai.There have been strong hints on this lil' blog of mine and elsewhere that I'm a big read more

Unlike some of my other accommodation reviews, this really is going to stay short and sweet for the best of reasons; we cannot find fault with The Levels as an ideally located villa with a huge "wow" factor. I think many of the photos will speak for themselves too. I read more

I learned to scuba dive on the beautiful Thai island of Koh Lanta, and this post summarises what my experience of scuba diving in Koh Lanta is like. Read more

About a month or so ago I read a tweet introducing a travel blogging initiative called "Travel Bloggers Give Back". A little investigation showed that it originated from Green Global Travel, a US based blogging team who have a healthy attitude and conscience towards sustainable travel - something I try read more

I have nearly finished my Open Water Diver course. It has been a roller coaster, or rather a bumpy ship ride, of a course and at one point I didn't think I was going to be able to continue or complete it due to an horrific bout of seasickness on read more

More photos from that sunset. I didn't think I'd got any decent ones because I had to grab the camera so quickly (it was so cleverly packed in my suitcase surrounded by rolls of clothing I couldn't find it at first) and then didn't even check what the settings were; read more

We arrived in Thailand yesterday just in time to witness this. I've never seen a full rounded sun set in front of my eyes before and it was so quick I didn't have time to grab my camera out of my case before it had already sunk nearly halfway. Still, read more