To give you guys a short update:

- Mongolia: visum should not be a problem, get it on arrival for 30 days. (Would like this to be 60 days, anyone any tips on this?).

- Kazachstan: as a Dutchy I'm allowed free travel for 14 days! So that's good. (Will this enough? Well, it has to be I guess).

- Kyrgyzstan: Once more it pays being Dutch; 60 days without a visum

- Uzbekistan: should be able to get it, but it's to most expensive one (200 £ ). And since I'm far from a high roller, might skip this country. It blows, but you can't spend what you don't have. Not sure on what to do.

- Russia: This is where things go south. So far I found you need to get this visum in your home country, where I am not. And Russia is a big country so I have to cross is somewhere... I'll hit the embassy tomorrow and see what they can tell me. But so far, this socks (actually I typed something else but I think autocorrect is telling me something).

- What happens when I hit Europe is next on the list but that will be for tomorrow. Also, for a lot of paperwork they speak of 'letter of invite' and of showing travel papers like tickets (date of arrival). How to do this?


On the plus side: all countries have an embassy in Bangkok!


Thank you all so far, it has been a most productive day. Now kick back with a Chang and Batman on TV.

Blommetje

Fortune and Glory, kid. Fortune and Glory.