I am leaving for Penang again on Monday, but this time it is not my usual trip. This time I do not have the space in my passport to get a normal visa to re-enter Thailand, so I shall just have to cross the border, spend a couple of nights in Penang and then purchase a return train ticket from Butterworth to Bangkok and hopefully I can get a visa-on-entry for thirty days in Thailand, which I should just about have enough room for in my passport.

With the new immigration rules in Thailand now, you can only get a visa-on-entry to Thailand now if you can show that you have a valid ticket to leave the country again, which is the reason why I shall have to buy a return ticket from Butterworth. This should then give me thirty days to get a new passport issued in Bangkok and then return to Penang again for a normal visa in the early New Year.

All of this juggling with Thai immigration rules and space in my passport, is the direct result of getting no help or assistance whatsoever from the British Embassy in Bangkok with this.

See related previous blog entry (British Embassy's Purpose: to help or to make money?).

Cheers for now, Legless.