Russia Travel Visa Vodka Bus Rides And John Lee Hooker
f you think getting a visa when our first stop was the
to travel to Russia is liquor store.
difficult, you should try
getting one to travel around the Four vodka bottles in hand, we
country. Living in Russia, I hit our first stop at the home of
needed just such a Russia travel a retired customs official who
visa. was married to someone's half
brothers third sister and so on.
Russia Travel Visa We reminisced and drank shots for
a half hour or so. Feeling no
Unlike many countries, foreigners pain, the customs official called
in Russia must declare on their a friend and off we went to meet
travel visa where they will him while leaving the open vodka
travel in the country. If they bottle behind.
want to add a location, they have
to get a new, temporary visa for At the new gentlemen's home, we
the location. Basically, it is cracked our second bottle of
red tape and bureaucracy out the vodka. Reminiscing was
ying yang. undertaken, which left me out of
the process since I had never met
While living in Siberia, I was the chap before. Eventually,
invited to speak at a human another phone call was made and
rights conference in the town of we were off to make a new friend.
Tinda. I wasn't entirely sure
where this was, but new I needed
a temporary visa to get from my As you can probably guess, this
city to it. My host, Oleg process was repeated two more
Vladimirovich, told me getting times. At our final meeting, I
one would be no problem. I was so "warm on the inside, cold
should've known I was in trouble on the outside" as Russians say
when demurely sipping vodka that necessary visa or something that
I was reminiscing with a man and wouldn't get me arrested. Oleg
wife who I had never met before joked it was a "semi-visa". It
in my life! might work or might not. Seeing
double, I headed home to pack my
Eventually, we obtained the stuff for the train.
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