So, I had to go to Cambodia for a visa run this weekend, to change my tourist visa to a business one, which apparently has to be done out of the country.
I probably wouldn't have chosen to go the weekend before Christmas, but I didn't have a lot of choice with my visa expiring on Christmas eve. So I decided to go 'just' over the border (more like 7 hours) to Phnom Penh, Cambodia, the nearest embassy-bearing foreign capital.
What with the visa costing some £120 (not that much more than my initial single-entry tourist visa which cost £80 in London), I was trying to keep costs down by going to Cambodia on the bus rather than flying to Thailand or somewhere.
I'm not sure if I made the right decision, because it ended up being an expensive weekend. They use the US Dollar informally in Cambodia, and nobody wants to charge you less than a dollar for anything, so it mounts up.
Sadly, although the visa was sorted out on the first day, and I met some great people to have a pint with in the hostel my first night, I fell victim of a surprise illness, which I think I can pinpoint to a curry I had on Friday night. Sadly, it wrote off most of the weekend, so I barely scratched the surface of the city.
I saw the Royal Palace, and wandered around a few boulevards, national monuments and the riverside area, so I saw a little, but I'll have to come back again to really make the most of it.
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