It’s Friday night in Brisneyland, so there’s every chance nobody will read this until Monday.
I went on a visa run with Quick Thai Visa Run yesterday. I needed to be at Ekkamai before 9am, which was about 3 stops on the BTS from Asok station, which is the stop nearest to my place. I left my place at around 7:30am, and after the walk and a little bit of not knowing where specifically to meet the group, I found everyone at around 8:30am. Filled in the neccessary paperwork, handed over my 2000B, and got on the bus. Bus left at 9:30am sharp, and we were on the road for exactly 2 hours, pulled over for a rest stop at 11:30am. While we were recharging, our food and drink orders arrived magically on our seat: I had the pork omelette and rice, and a pepsi. There were 4 movies en route, I watched a couple - one was The Lonely Hearts club, one was this average Jet Li flick, I forget the rest. At 1:30pm, our passports were handed out by the lady in charge, and at 1:45pm we arrived at the border.
We were hearded out and through, and then hearded back again. We had 15 minutes to shop on the Cambodian side if we wanted … frankly I couldn’t be bothered, and the Cambodian beggars were less intense on the Thai side of the bridge. Some Thai official would shout at the kids who had made their way too close to his side and they would scamper away. I was a particular target: “Mr bpoom-bpuy, 1 baht na?” Bpoom bpuy is a polite way to say “chubby”.
Back on the bus at 2:30pm, back off at 4:30pm. I had an icecream. The final two hours took about 2 and a half hours because of traffic, but I was glad to be home. I met Mint at Robinson’s and we walked home from there.