Saturday 15th March - Day 41

I decide to change rooms, so despite the extra cost, I pay for a room that has a bathroom with a shower and hot water. And I have a T.V. too - sorted.

In the morning we have our first diving theory lesson in the classroom. In the afternoon we get to go in the swimming pool wearing our scuba gear. It's quite good fun, but the diving skills don't come naturally to me, so there's little work involved too. There's six of us in the group, five blondes (seven if you count the instructors) and me. We have two instructors. The first one is Daniel, from Austria, who mainly looks after the three ditsy blonde girls from Denmark and Holland, and the second is Wendy, from Holland, who looks after me and a newly wed German couple Alexander and Kirsten. Alexander and Kirsten are about as friendly a couple as you could meet and we get on really well.

Every evening there's always a barbecue right in front of the beach. It's warm in the evening too. And there are a few bars and restaurants along the beach to visit. It takes less than one minute to walk from my room to the beach. It couldn't be much more different to being back home.