days, and nobody is quite sure if that is entirely legal... since I would then have two entry stamps on my Russian visa but no exit stamps... they really skrewed up my visa at the Moscow airport... Which is now officially the worst airport I have ever been too.
Well, a calculated risk is under way that will make or break my trip. My friend Hilkka in Helsinki found a company there that can have me a new visa by Friday (if I am at their office by noon on Wednesday)... Just in time for me to leave for Russia from Finland as planned. If this works, she is a goddess.
So, just next door to my hotel is the Air Baltic office, from whom I just purchased a flight that will have me in Helsinki by Tuesday evening. If all goes to plan in Helsinki, I will have the actual trans- Siberian portion of my trip intact... which is really the whole point
of this mess, this stuff in the beginning was just icing ok the cake.
I will update the the crazy visa situation when I know more details... I assume the cost will be expensive, but considering the sunk costs I have in train tickets from Helsinki, and the money i will save by having a place to stay for free for some extra days. The flight cost
is irrelevant. Essentially, the only extra cost will be for the new visa, which at this point I don't care about.
Worst case scenario #3, I can't get my visa in time, I am out the money I paid for trans-Siberian tickets, and I try to modify my air ticket to return home from Europe. All of my arrangements along the way were to be paid on arrival, so if that were to happen I would be
severely dissapointed... but oh well, I would then use my time to swing back through the baltics and head to somewhere like Lichtenstein and Portugul... all places I have never been to before. I really hope that it does not come to that though!
Off to explore the wet and overcast city the rest of the day, I fly out tommorow afternoon.
- The Dues
2 comments:
crazy...just crazy
Have you been raped yet? I feel a raping is eminent.
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