We have investigated the properties of two-dimensional water confined in between two graphene oxide layers using extended tight-binding (xTB) based molecular dynamics. The main focus has been on the influence of confinement on the self-diffusion of water, where previously published work came to conflicting conclusions. In these studies different structural models as well as different methods for the forces (DFT versus force field) were used. Therefore our aim has not been a direct comparison. Instead we approached the issue by designing six models capturing different layer distances and ordering of the GO functional groups. The interlayer distances were in the range of experimental values reported previously. Using xTB whose accuracy is expected to be intermediate between DFT and force fields, we provide a computational frame that can be systematically extended to larger systems in future work. In the present work our main focus has been on the role of H-bonded bridges connecting the GO layers for water diffusion. Although suggested more than ten years ago, 3 this motif has never been explored by computational studies so far.