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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 […]

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 […]

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 […]