Dive Instructor Journal

The last week has been pretty full on.  I've been keeping my Eco intern Julia busy with clean ups, coral transplants, coral watch and all sorts while Simon has been working the bar, teaching DSD's, followed by a quick English/Hungarian Open Water course with Hungarian video Steve's friends before doing our visa run to Penang, Malaysia.

First time flying

We are currently in Georgetown, Penang on a visa run.  This will be our last visa run before heading home to the UK in May :-D
Our outward journey was long but pleasant, Cuthbert enjoyed the boat, coach, flights and finally the taxi ride to our destination, where we dropped off our bags and went straight out for food.  We were famished.  With Little India just 5 minutes away, Simon has quite a selection of restaurants to choose from which made a nice change.

Si, so happy on a bike :-D

To Simon's delight, we've hired push bikes again to get around.  It's much faster than walking everywhere.  The bikes are single gear and have lovely baskets at the front which we can use for our shopping or for Cuthbert when he wants to venture out :-D

Our accommodation is good, the decor is nothing like the last place we stayed but it's charming. Downstairs we have an outside kitchen, shower & toilet,  simple lounge and dining area and upstairs a large bedroom with outside toilet.

After sorting out our visa's and doing a little shopping we headed back to the apartment to catch up on mails, work etc.


Last night we Cuthbert to the cinema, to see LOGAN   ..He loved it!  ..especially the coke and popcorn!

The big screen

It was certain not the most enjoyable visit to the cinema for us though as we moved seats 3 times.  Once due to a mouse jumping on Simon's arm, not once but a couple of times. At one point Simon passed me the popcorn and I jumped out of my skin, obviously thinking the mouse had landed on me.  The second move was due to the previous mouse deciding Simon was his new best friend and bounced along a the seats towards him and then the third move was due to the idiots behind us, kicking my chair, non stop talking and generally acting like brats  ..so we finally decided to move and ended up under a faulty speaker.  I think by this time, we'd missed so much of the film, we couldn't be bothered to move for the forth time.  I'd like to watch this movie again but without any interruptions :-D