Visa Update
The visa has come back from Kazakhstan Embassy!
Horay!
And its come just in time for me to pick up my passport from the Post Office and take it to London today.
I’ve dropped into the Kygystan Embassy and the girl did the whole thing for me and will return it by Friday! That’s just excellent news!
I found the embassy after a long tube journey and although I’ve been before, I came out the tube station and had no idea where I was in the world! It doesn’t bode well for world wide travel does it? Hidden beneath my brolly I walked down to the Embassy and remembered I was supposed to give them an envelope to have my passport posted back.
Now where would you find a post office in the rain and in central London?
Turn right and there it was! All the fates and omens are making this easy. Either that or else I’m easily pleased 
The envelope for special recorded delivery came to £5.05. How do they justify that? What will that buy in Kyrystan do you think?
The door looked good, solid wood and held itself with authority, complete with electronic control, which was efficiently opened and lead into a white sterile but 1970s corridor. The double door to the left said reception but looked more like the entrance into a white Melomine MFI wardrobe.
Could be the entrance into world of Narnia made of plastic and fitted for free if you visit on Boxing day. I’ll have to remember when I’m in Kygystan to look out for more evidence. Small folk with hooves and a talking lion.
The reception was small and dotted with maps taken from a tourist information booklet and copied when the toner was running low. The girl behind the desk hid away behind the counter behind some more tourist info. Im quite sure they were strategically placed to hide the hours she must play solitaire or surf the net waiting for the next punter.
The other good news was she was incredible! Besides efficient and smiling she was quiet the stunning foreign secretary type. It’s here that fantasies start and stop!
I hope there are more like her! She was very sweet, kind, patient and so fit!
Fantastic! 
If my passport is returned by Friday I can send it off Friday daytime and get a Russian visa started.
Turkmenistan is quite a different story.
I thought I would walk to the Turk Embassy.
Maps. They are so misdescriptive of real life. I hadnt thought it might be a few miles and now my feet really hurt.
No, I dont need GPS and no, I’m not going to be walking round the world.
I got to their offices munching a steak and stilton pasty that I tasted over and over all the rest of the day, they were really shabby just on the outskirts of Soho. I couldn’t work out how to get in so I rang them and burped stilton flavoured questions about visas down the phone.
They answered the phone and were grumpy because I’d interrupted dinner. The Consular Section was not in. How rude I thought!
They told me over the phone to look on the web but the web doesnt work and the links die! I’ve been trying for two weeks!
Even the Letter of Invite company/agency web address doesn’t work.
It must be me!?
See if any of you guys can get further than me?
It needs to be the UK embassy and the LOI has to come from the Regional Sparts and Toursim Department.
I’ll try to email them tomorrow and get some sense of it all.
At home I looked again and got just a little further. It also seems they charge for a Transit Visa and the charge on the border for 3rd Party insurance that’s non negotiable, finally they charge on the border for motorcycle crossings and I can’t deviate from my planned route in any way!
Really are Tourist happy huh!?
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