http://www.lettersfromshanghai.com Sophie's Letters Fri, 08 Apr 2005 16:49:47 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 Im in the middle of my advanced open water course just now, did two dives today, got three tomorrow, including a night dive! When I'm finished I'll be qualified to dive to 30m! I was doing a navigation dive today and I saw a nemo fish. I've seen lots of ... http://www.lettersfromshanghai.com/index.php?p=50 Ive just finished my diving course, and absolutely LOVED it. Must be up there with the highlights of my trip. In the last two days I did four dives, each was about 40mins and we just didn't want to go back up!! Anyway, they run an advanced open water course which ... http://www.lettersfromshanghai.com/index.php?p=49 Im going to Koh Tao tomorrow evening, taking a night bus down the coast then a boat at 6.30am in the morning. It's all arranged with the Diving company, so I don't have to worry about transport or accommodation for the next five days, which is ACE! http://www.lettersfromshanghai.com/index.php?p=48 Im catching up with the news online just now, it seems like it was a very bad earthquake .... but I never felt it and I was awake at that time as well. Although it said in an article I'm reading that it was felt as far north as ... http://www.lettersfromshanghai.com/index.php?p=47 Ive made it safely (although not without stress) into Thailand and I'm now on the Island of Ko Chang! Its totally different from Laos and Cambodia, more developed with lots of cars and trucks and still lots of motorbikes and they all drive on the left hand side! The food ... http://www.lettersfromshanghai.com/index.php?p=46 Im really looking forward to coming home. It will be weird being in a car .... let alone driving one! There's hardly any here in SE Asia (maybe more in Thailand, I don't know) And motorbike is the transport of choice. Tuk Tuk in Thailand and Laos. If you want ... http://www.lettersfromshanghai.com/index.php?p=45 I haven't made it yet to Thailand, Fi and I bought boat tickets three days ago for the 17th and we were due to leave the next morning, but an hour before we were due to leave I got quite ill with sickness and diarrhoea and couldn't get out of ... http://www.lettersfromshanghai.com/index.php?p=44 Im still in Phnom Penh, we visited the S-21 detention centre museum and the killing fields just outside the city today. Very, very harrowing stuff, it's so hard to try and understand how people can do that to their own people. And the effects of the Pol Pot regime are ... http://www.lettersfromshanghai.com/index.php?p=43