Archive for 'Syria'
gad souks! our week in syria
Days 48-54: Crossing over from Turkey into Syria there one immediately noticeable change - it was our first experience on this trip of a country using arabic rather than roman lettering and so a notch higher on the “degree of difficulty” scale. But, with a quick rip through the Arabic numerals, I was ready to […]
Posted: August 25th, 2007 under Syria, Aleppo, Photos, Palmyra, Damascus, Hama.
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the heat is killing me!
Day 31: Pictured here are our friends Anthea Long and Andrew Benoy, fresh from their travels through China, Iran, Syria, Jordan and Eastern Turkey. It’s such a relief they have their own blog.
Don’t they both look hot!
Andrew: Professional human rights advocate. Currently reading The Economist. Favourite movie: Anchorman.
Anthea: Treasury-trained economist now saving the […]
Posted: July 30th, 2007 under Syria, Jordan, Iran, China, People, Pakistan.
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passports, check! visas, check!
Day -10: We have the passports! We have the visas! We are ten days away from departure! Calm down Andrew!
I picked up our approved visas from the Syrian Embassy in Canberra’s O’Malley office on Thursday. Oddly, the experience was not unlike walking through a sliding door into somebody’s basement, excerpt there happened to be about […]
Posted: June 14th, 2007 under Syria, Visas.
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nervous wait
Day -17: We’ve placed our faith in the Australian postal system by sending our passports through the post (registered mail) to the Embassy of the Syrian Arab Republic in Canberra for processing. Syria is only one of two countries on our itinerary that we can’t get a visa for at the border (if we need […]
Posted: June 7th, 2007 under Syria, Visas, Planning.
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visa geezer
Day -33: Not too much activity today as I’m on the road for work. Visa forms have to go in this week to the respective consulates: first India, then Syria. The very Aussie Syrian Embassy website complete with picture of the embassy with a mocked-up kangaroo out the front is worth a look. This was […]
Posted: May 22nd, 2007 under Syria, India, Visas.
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pre-planning
Day -34: By now, planning for the trip is well underway. In fact, we’ve been planning for the trip in some shape or form since, in a flash of inspiration, we starting saving up for it more than four years ago.
After listing all the places that we wanted to visit, we needed to cut it […]
Posted: May 21st, 2007 under Greece, Norway, Syria, United Kingdom, Oslo, London, Planning, Flights.
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poundster.com is born
We set off on our “trip of a lifetime”, a ten-nation adventure that will take us to Norway, Greece, Turkey, Syria, Jordan, Israel, Egpyt, India and Nepal over a period of up to six months.
Posted: May 20th, 2007 under Turkey, Greece, Norway, Syria, India, Jordan, Nepal, United Kingdom, Egypt.
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