For those of you lazy bastards who can’t be bothered to read the blogposts, we’ve created a bullet-point version. And yeah, we’re planning a proper book, too 🙂
bureaucracy
The Rally, day 24-28
The next day, we meet the famous Mr. Mousavi. It turns out that he really is a wizard, and he starts out by helping us to exchange some Dollars in to Rials. For this he recommends an office that is specialized in these matters, and we get ready to go there.
The Rally, day 10-16
The original plan was to stay in Istanbul for one (1) night, and then move on. But as we got wrapped up in more and more red tape during the long and tedious process of sorting out our visas, we realized that we couldn’t get all of them before the Rally start in London.
Visa-madness, Part II
The fun continues. What follows are examples of questions on some of the Visa-forms we had to fill out:
- «Full name of head.»
- «What is your Grandfather’s name?»
- «If retired, write ‘retried’.»
- «Who will pay for you?»
- «Have you been treated for any serious physical or mental disorder?»
- «Did you or do you have infections (contagious) of diseases harmful for the health surrounding society?»
- «Have you ever been a member of terrorist group, human trafficking, weapons and ammunition, illegal drug trafficking and their precursors?»
- «Are you allowed to return to your country of origin?»
And so on…
Visa-madness
The paperwork is really getting to us.
It’ll be great to finally hit the road and only have to deal with extreme fatigue, exploded tyres, roadkill for breakfast and corrupt officials – and all this even before we leave Norway!