So Edd's passport arrived on Tuesday and I found myself in the Thai embassy first thing yesterday morning. I was genuinely surprised at how easy the whole process was. I went back this morning at 11am to collect them and went straight to the Vietnamese Embassy a few streets down. (Truth be told I took a tube to Victoria as the Embassy is in Victoria Street only to realise that I needed to take the tube to Gloucester Road and walk 0.5 miles to a different Victoria Street that ended up being a few streets down from where I had started at the Thai Embassy. You live you learn).

Murphy's Law I was standing behind one of those people that you pay to do this visa application process for you. I swear he was applying for visas on behalf of all of Europe. Anyway, that's done and dusted; we've asked for express service (which means a turn around time of 2 days instead of 5) so I'm fetching them on Monday. Then I leave the Vietnamese Embassy and go straight to the Cambodian Embassy to apply for their visas.

In between all of this I have to apply for our Australian working holiday visas as well, at least that's online. On a positive note, Laos, Malaysia and Bali issue visas on arrival; thank goodness for that. Laos and Malaysia don't even have embassies in London, the closest Laos Embassy is in Paris. Even though another trip to Paris would never be turned down, I'd prefer to go for reasons that don't include standing in a queue with my passport, application form and 2 photos.

I can't understand why they want 2 passport photos of you. I realise you need to supply a photo on the application form - that makes sense - but there are no photos on your visa, so whats the second one for? Those bad boys cost serious money and with every application requiring 2 photos, Edd and I bought 24 passport approved photos each in the hope that we wouldn't run out.

Right, thats the visa update. All running smoothly and on track. Tick, tick and stamp. :)