Today I did a diving course in the pool to refresh my knowhow. Luckily it was not so hot, so i only had to wear a shorty suit. Its amazing, how much things I forgot until i dived last time. This was in February 2007 in Egypt. After the course and the training sessions in the pool were finished, it began to rain heavily, no good timing....
When i did the lessons, everything went smootly and the memory came back fast. Now i know how good my education in Egypt was, here its not so detailed and cautious compared to the course of my dive club in munich. I had to buy a adapter for my equipment, here they have a different standard. I am also thinking about completing my equipment, because only two parts are missing, the suit and the jacket. The suit is cheap but the jacket is expensive. Don´t know what i will do, have to sleep about it. I hate to go shopping for business suits and go shopping for diving suits its even worse, imagine trying out some 5mm neopren in a hot enviroment directly under the roof. Believe me, the wet suite was wet from the inside after a couple of minutes.
For tomorrow I have booked a dive excursion to sailrock, this is a reef 1,5 hours with boat north from here, taxi pickup at hotel is at 7h in the morning, thats hard.... But for the nice things in life you always have to pay something; in this case getting up early is the price.
Today i had lunch at the main road, which is outside lamai beach, i had a soup, the main dish, a beer and a ice tea and paid less than 2 euros. At the beach i have to pay 1,5 euros for the beer alone...
On the other side its no problem to pay 12euros for a steak alone in some restaurants, thats thailand you can have everything here at every price level, its up to you what you choose. You can sleep at some simple beach huts for 3 euros/night or at a private villa for 3000 euros/night.
Here at the beach some small fireworks took place everyday and they also fly these lighted ballons with a fire inside. Very romantic, because the beach and the sky right now is very dark so these ballons can be seen for a long time and a long distance.
Time is running fast, now its day 9 of my trip and munich and germany is far far far away from my mind....
