Monday, January 09, 2006

The Prelude Part 4

Well it continues. This morning he decided to go to Birmingham to get his Thai visa. Of course it would have been too simple to check what time the Consulate was open and so he just decided to go by the first cheap train (i.e. after 0930). Imagine his surprise and dismay when Hoots rang him to tell him the Consulate closed at 1130 and the conductor told him that was the ETA of the train to Birmingham New Street.

He got into New Street at 1128 and proceeded to get lost in the station before eventually, having obtained directions from the stupidest man in the world (an information clerk in the Pallisades shopping centre who did not know which was the New Street exit) making it to the Consulate just after 1130.

By some miracle, that he so little deserves, the very kind Consul agreed to issue his Visa anyway and he now has his.

Flukey sod.

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