FLICKING through a brochure for a holiday in Indonesia you can expect to see images of cocktails on the beach, crystal blue waters and golden sands.
You might be less inclined to book should the tourist board be advertising a trip not dissimilar to that of Robinson Crueso.
But that is exactly what Sinead Newman likens her trip of a lifetime to the Southeast Asian country to after she ended up shipwrecked.
Single Sinead, 45, from London was about to complete the final sea-going dive of her PADI certification as part of her two-week, luxury £5,000 holiday when disaster struck, as she tells Fabulous in our new series, Holiday Horrors.
“I’d researched everything from the hotels to the dive instructors, flights, even the menus for months and months,” Sinead says in an exclusive interview.