Just back from a long trip to the Mediterranean and Red Sea. Did a mixture of shore, day boat and liveaboard diving. Shore diving was mainly solo and dived with both large and small groups on boats. A lot of it was wonderful, but I didn't particularly enjoy the group diving and especially with larger groups. All divers where highly competent so that wasn't the problem. Being guided around like a sheep just doesn't do it for me anymore. Ironically, I was a dive guide 20 years and have had someone wonderful dives with guides as a customer in the past. These tended to be slow moving dives in small groups looking for macro life. To put this in context, I'm a solo diver at heart and do a lot of independent diving either from my own boat or friend's boats. Just coming up to 1000 dives.The magic has gone and don't think I'd book another dive holiday again, but if I did, group sizes and guiding policy would be discussed well in advance. Anyone else have similar feelings? Any other thoughts?