Unlike last year, we skipped most of the club dives to the south coast this year, saving our diving budget for the more unusual club dive locations and our Red Sea excursion.
The most recent Weymouth trip was the exception because we’d never been on Skin-Deep before. Skin-Deep is a rather slick catamaran that has all [...]
Far too early on a lovely Sunday morning we joined the hordes of divers crowding into the under-sized carpark at Wraysbury Dive Centre – “London’s premiere [only] inland dive site”.
Literally, the single thing to recommend this particular site is its location – within spitting distance of London’s M25 ring-road. Everything else [...]
One of the things we were both extra keen to rescue from storage in SA was our cappuccino machine. (Having done that, we are now in the position of waiting on the lovely people at Pickfords to actually put it all on a boat and send it over to us! )
Anyway, in anticipation [...]
Gone are the days when we thought that most of the cars parked in London suburbs must be irrevocably “parked in”. Since becoming a London driver himself, Tom prides himself on being able to get our car both in and out of the notoriously tiny spaces in our neighbourhood.
The one he eased [...]
With memories of last year’s very tedious trip up to Wales (on a Friday afternoon) still surprisingly fresh, we took the whole of Friday off for getting there this year. Despite high hopes of an early start, we were only on the road by 11h00. Six and a half hours later – far too many [...]
