Something happened today that I found quite disturbing. During the week Nuth stays with her father in their village about 8km away from Surin, he is old and needs somebody to take care of him. This works out really well as it gives me time to work in the week without interruption and we spend the weekends doing fun things.

Today I drove Nuth home to her village, whilst I was helping her move her bags inside and get Leon settled, her neighbours Son turned up drunk. He started an argument with his father, and then killed him right in front of us, seriously just across the street in their garden.

So the police were called and they carted him off. You just don’t expect to see somebody murdered right in front of you!

So it was visa run time again today, actually this was a bad one, not because it was difficult but because it was the last one I can get away with on my Current non-immigrant B visa from the UK. This means that I have to return to the UK no later than the 1st of September to get a new one. It will have been 15 months since I was last in the UK, and I am not sure I am looking forward too it. Certainly I could do without the cost of the trip.

Anyway, this was my first visa run to Cambodia, and it was easy, it took me 3 hours. I jumped on my motorcycle and rode 65km to the Cambodian border at Chong Chom, spent 30 minutes crossing over and back and then came home to Surin, so much easier than the old Burma visa runs I had to do while I was living on Koh Phangan!