We are travelling to Amsterdam next week (the 4th June) for a company convention, and for a holiday. My husband was born in Rotterdam, so we will spend several days travelling around Holland, and visiting some relatives. We are hoping the Tulips will be in flower at this time of year. We’ve heard they are grown in the parklands in all different colors. We are staying in a resort south of Amsterdam, and the resort is in the countryside, so it should be beautiful.

After our stay in the Netherlands, we will travel to Ljubljana in Slovenia to meet some business partners and then down to the south coast of Italy for a few days. There is scuba diving near where we are staying, has anyone scuba dived on the southern coast of Italy? We’re staying about 100 kms from Naples. If anyone requires a credit card in the Netherlands please see this Krediet kaart site

I have been missing scuba diving these last 5 months. We had LOTS of rain here on the Gold Coast all through our summer (from December to March), and the Southport Seaway was not a good place to dive. My dive buddy and I went there a few weeks ago, and it was getting better. The other day, we went for a dive with the Gold Coast dive club and the viz was about 5 metres.

I still love the feeling I get down underwater, no matter what the viz is like. However, my dive buddy kept making signs he was falling asleep, he likes to be occupied all the time. For me, I just loved being in the “now” down there! We had a barbie after the dive and talked about our dive experiences, which I love doing!