Finally, ended all of our wanderings and journeys to the Indian Embassies round the world

I believe that after many stressings, on the 12th October, 2007 after quite a flurry at the Indian Embassy in Cambodia, we now have Indian Visa's being processed. I don't quite like to think it's all over just yet, because you can never fully just these places.
But on Friday Jono drove Cals on the Moto = motorbike, and I was put on the back of some random mans moto who was driving down the street (it's normal here apparently, i thought it was a bit of a lark until I realised today that that really is an occupation, so you get asked so many times as you're walking down the street if you want a lift, drawback is it's not free, and sometimes feels dangerous!!!) and we ended up at a house in the backstreets.
It was a nice looking house, and had one window opening out onto the drive, so we knocked and handed our papers. He decided he didn't like what we'd already filled out, so we took chairs outside the window, and began again. Then at about 10 mins to 11 he tells us that we need copies of our Cambodian Visa's to get our Indian Visa's... good grief. Thankfully Jono is waiting outside the gate with the moto, so I rush out with the passports, and give him the urgent errand. The urgency was that the embassy is only open from 9-11 each morning. Why wouldn't they?
So i wait outside the gate, while Cals is inside smiling at the man and begging him to keep his window open so that we can hand in our passports and get them processed just in time.
Jono gets back and we rush to the counter, and the dude is still there, thankfully didn't need to be bribed, because I think I would've done it to get the visa's through. We pay the fee and he tells us to come back 2 working days later. I think that's why i'm still a little skeptical. Maybe this Indian was born in Cambodia??? It's just not very like Indian service that sometimes you can receive in India. I did tell them we were flying out a day earlier to make sure we'd get our visa's on time, and he's been so kind as to provide them even a day earlier than that. So feeling quite thankful at this point in time.

This morning we went to the markets and bought some Cambodian garbe. It is quite hot, and unfortunately all my punjabi's are locked up in the Sing airport, so the thick long pants I was wearing in Canada in the snow are no longer appropriate.

We sat in a little coffee shop this afternoon and waited 1.5 hours for the food for all 8 of us to be bought out. It was amazing. We actually had to tell people not to come in as there were already 3 other tables waiting after us that had arrived within 2 mins of our table. It's all interesting. Jono ordered Spaghetti Carbonara and recieved the yoke of a raw egg in half a shell on the top as a garnish.
Icecream is good here.