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An extra country...

Thursday, 16. April 2009, 18:06:52

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In the last episode I was hoping to get on a plane to Alamty. It didn't work out quite like that, but it is OK...

I'm in Turkey - a surprise visit, because I had to stop here to wait for my visa authorisation before they would let me check in to Almaty. 20USD for a visa that would let me stay 90 days, but I ddin't even stay 90 minutes. I did take a coule of photos though, and planted my bare feet on real dirt in Turkey. Which, along with the visa stamps, means I really have been here. however briefly.

So despite the panic, the fact that I had to go to a new country, and the stress when my first flight was delayed by an unknown amount, it seems that tomorrow morning I will indeed be in Almaty...


(And many thanks to Yelena, and Zarina at Bell travel. You're both stars, and thanks to you, Turkish Airlines and flying too much I now have a printed version of the document I need for them to let me into Kazakhstan)

Visas and nerves...Not like groundhog day..

Comments

inkel 17. April 2009, 08:16

It is good to know that thins are going well (although not in the way you expected.)

I hope that if you read this you can do it from Almaty ;)

Charles McCathieNevile 17. April 2009, 18:08

Well, actually I am reading it from Istanbul... but hopeful still...

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