First things first, the footy ended one all. Apparently we murdered them for an hour but when they equalized it was a backs to the wall scenario...honours even then.

Yesterday's diving was much better than we thought it would be. Nowehere near the marine life there was in Koh Tao (and it was 5 degrees cooler) but nowhere near as crowded underwater either and we had a number of things happen that hadn't before. We got to dive our first cave which was great fun - you kind of went in at the bottom and surfaced about 20 metres later towards the top - the pools of water where the rocks met water it looked like little pools of mercury and a number of smaller fish congregated here - I guess in order to shelter from predators. We saw a number of creatures that we hadn't seen before including a massive octopus and a cuttlefish that looked a bit like a hovercraft in motion.

Mid-way through the second dive Jen found what looks like a wedding ring - and the bloke must have extremely big fingers cos it's massive. It's got the words 18 Ct. stamped on the inside so we suspect it isn't. After establishing that no-one on the boat had lost a ring we decided to get it valued in Hong Kong (if we ever get there - the 'flu' thing has now killed 5) and if it's worth anything either sell it and spend the money on more dives/a dive computer or if it's worth nothing we're going to keep it as memoribilia...either way quite a find. We only did relatively shallow dives (to about 20 metres) and the good news is, that whilst my ear isn't perfect it seems to be better than before and will hopefully clear up in a couple of days...if not, well it's back to the hospital, but we don't think that'll be necessary this time.

The train tomorrow is at 05.30 ('and what's the O stand for - Oh my God it's early....'). We're staying in Hoi An for a couple of days before travelling up to our debarkation point - Hanoi. A couple of days there (which should be enough by all accounts) and then onto Hong Kong, although the sevens looks as though it may not happen this year as a number of teams are pulling out...would be gutted if that were the case as our tickets have now been bought and are stored in a safe place apparently!

Chest seems to be nearly better - not coughing up too much (sorry to much info...) and generally feel alot better.

See the war has started - I would say it's unbelieveable but it isn't of course...wonder how many innocent people will die this time - Bush should really go to the War Museum in HCMC - that may influence him. (Although with (an alledged) IQ of less than half that of his predecessor he might not be able to take it all on board...)