Archive for the ‘India’ Category

Back again

Saturday, July 25, 2009 4:10 4 Comments

Hi all, Ah it’s glad to be back. We had a little break from it all for a while, said sayanara (or however you spell it) as we dashed from embassy to embassy trying to keep Dorothy’s show on the road. And now that we’ve done. We’ve got a new route. No longer through Iran [...]

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Progress

Saturday, July 4, 2009 3:38 No Comments

The chicken’s been hatched and so as the egg, because on Monday I should pick up a freshly printed Chinese visa. Add to that the Kyrgyzstan stamp I collect on Tuesday and its fair to say the ball is well and truly rolling. I’ve appointed the agency to get me into China and while that [...]

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Complicated

Wednesday, July 1, 2009 4:36 6 Comments

Just been to Chinese visa service centre. No joy. I need different documents because I’m travelling by bike and that’s led to a chincken and an egg scenario. They need documentation from the agency arranging Dot’s entry which will only be made possible once I’ve paid. And at $2,000 that’s not a price I want [...]

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Back to the Future

Tuesday, June 30, 2009 15:12 No Comments

Rather than up the Indian map, today I travelled back down, to Delhi. And all because I should have applied for a Chinese visa the last time I was here. Instead I thught it’d be nice to escape to the moutains, forgetting completely that while we might have found a way for Dot to get [...]

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A night with Dot (and a few other bits)

Sunday, June 28, 2009 13:16 No Comments
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Spotless Dot

Thursday, June 25, 2009 16:12 No Comments

today dot got a wash, more pics to come.

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Decisions decisions

Wednesday, June 24, 2009 16:56 3 Comments

Welcome to Nathan’s geography lesson, brought to you live from the staircase of the Roof Top Guesthouse, Delhi. If you can make any sense of what I’m waffling about then please email and clarify it all for me. I’m getting confused by it all. Good luck.

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Mind bomb

Tuesday, June 23, 2009 15:00 1 Comment

Alrighty guys, It’s only been afew days since I last posted but oh so much has happened I don’t really know where to start. First of all the Iranian embassy here in Delhi said no to a tourist visa. They just fobbed me off, not a no exactly, more a ‘go home to England and [...]

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Onwards or upwards

Sunday, June 21, 2009 15:24 3 Comments

Evening all, Just to let you know I’m still Delhi being harassed into buying all sorts of things I would never need, with tomorrow being the day I try and get some answers on this elusive Iranian visa. If it’s a green light and they tell me I can get it then off we go, [...]

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To Agra… with a birthday song for dot

Saturday, June 20, 2009 6:23 1 Comment
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