Live from Croatia
Consonant reader,
I'm sitting down in the tourist information centre on the island of Korćula in front of a PC and the monitor is swaying from side to side. I am, to all intents and purposes suffering from either dehydration or motion sickness. I think its probably a mixture of the two.
I'm having a lovely old time here in Croatia and just found the means to compose a blog at an internet point this morning. The weather is sunny most of the time but you can get days where its a bit windy but I'm not complaining!
The reason I'm suffering from the above symptoms is because for the past 5 days I've been undertaking a pretty intensive scuba diving course! At the end of this I'll be a qualified diver! How mad is that! I'm doing it with a BSAC (British Sub-Aqua Club) school near my hotel with a couple who began their trade in Potsmouth and then moved out here! Had to do exams and go to lectures- dodn't feel like a holiday for a while but I passed them ok. Had to learn a lot of emergency procedures underwater- rescue, giving spare air to someone- all of which are important when you'e underneath the briny blue.
But scuba diving is the prawn's crackers! I love it! Yesterday I went under to 12.6 metres (You must reach 20 to become a diver proper)- seen schools of fish of all weird and wonderful shapes and sizes, octopus and oddly, a load of cow bones. So amidst this, I've had little time to relax yet! I'll be back on Saturday and hopefully will have found time to unwind and read all those books I harped on about (I did finish The Crow Road- crackin'), until then I'm off for another dive or five...
See you back in the UK very soon (I miss bacon sandwiches)...
B x.
I'm sitting down in the tourist information centre on the island of Korćula in front of a PC and the monitor is swaying from side to side. I am, to all intents and purposes suffering from either dehydration or motion sickness. I think its probably a mixture of the two.
I'm having a lovely old time here in Croatia and just found the means to compose a blog at an internet point this morning. The weather is sunny most of the time but you can get days where its a bit windy but I'm not complaining!
The reason I'm suffering from the above symptoms is because for the past 5 days I've been undertaking a pretty intensive scuba diving course! At the end of this I'll be a qualified diver! How mad is that! I'm doing it with a BSAC (British Sub-Aqua Club) school near my hotel with a couple who began their trade in Potsmouth and then moved out here! Had to do exams and go to lectures- dodn't feel like a holiday for a while but I passed them ok. Had to learn a lot of emergency procedures underwater- rescue, giving spare air to someone- all of which are important when you'e underneath the briny blue.
But scuba diving is the prawn's crackers! I love it! Yesterday I went under to 12.6 metres (You must reach 20 to become a diver proper)- seen schools of fish of all weird and wonderful shapes and sizes, octopus and oddly, a load of cow bones. So amidst this, I've had little time to relax yet! I'll be back on Saturday and hopefully will have found time to unwind and read all those books I harped on about (I did finish The Crow Road- crackin'), until then I'm off for another dive or five...
See you back in the UK very soon (I miss bacon sandwiches)...
B x.