We’re about to perform a diver rescue training exercise in a little while, I’m supposed to be the beefcake and collect all equipment that will be dumped once the diver is being brought up and taken back to shore. The exercise is for our current Divemaster student, Louise! The problem with rescue exercises is other [...]
It’s raining here, a lot… And it has been raining on and off for about a month now. The last two weeks almost all the time. And there’s also strong wind. You all know what happens if you mix those two old friends; misery. I really can’t remember anything about misery when I read up [...]
The party of the year, New Years eve celebration, is there a party with higher expectations? How about a stomach bug that scatters your stomach’s content everywhere, that should set the festive spirit in motion, right? So I celebrated NYE on the great white porcelain throne, nice one. The whole thing started by a gentle [...]
I’ve been in a mini-accident, and before anyone reaches for a phone in worry let me tell you I’m almost fine! And the actual accident was a week ago… I fell over with the bike and applied my right calf to the exhaust and thus removed a fairly large piece of skin, and then I [...]
Cockfighting is a big thing here, almost everyone is trying to breed the noisy little bastards to win the big money… It’s apparently illegal but no-one is paying any notice to such things here. Massive big billboard adverts about new steroidal chicken-feed and sponsored events every Sunday. Surreal. As I’ve mentioned before there’s loads of [...]
It’s still kind of rainy season here, and we had a small typhoon warning a few days ago. I’m not actually sure what a typhoon means, but no-one here was very worried. It seems that’s what you expect at the moment. This other guy that’s also doing some freediving and me took the opportunity to [...]
So, T-3 days and counting. I am leaving the country in just over three days, and what am I doing? Polishing off my last alcohol, that’s what! No chance that I’m leaving my nice rum to someone else. I’ve had my bathroom refurbished over the last few weeks, I finally managed to get back into [...]
I’m in Stockholm right now, meeting up with family I haven’t seen in ages… Am running out of time to meet up with some friends that I had loosely agreed to meet though… (Sorry Fredrik!) Later this evening I will have filled all the requests to meet up with family which is a very good [...]
My brother and me are pretty good friends, we didn’t grow up together but we still managed to get to know each other quite well. I guess having a united front against a childhood nightmare helped to bring us together as well. Anyway, my bro found a new love in his life a few years [...]
So, I’m now unemployed. I’m a bum. Like Caine from “Kung Fu”, I’m going to walk the earth, get into adventures. Five points to anyone who can name the movie that’s from… Right now I should be busy sorting stuff out, packing my bag, calling loads of people to change my address and generally upset [...]