G - Reporting
Today we were meant to be heading to the border but we were a little worried that our visas are not registered (some ridiculous and pointless Kazak Regulation) so just to be safe we headed to the poice station 1st thing to make sure all is well, arriving as it open we go in and show our Visas “problem” comes the reply, we are then show into an office where we are ignored for a good half hour by the staff on the other side of the window!
Finial the window opens and a cell phone is shoved into Bridget’s had the women on the other end in English explains we are not registered and also to late to register without a fine plus all the paper work must be done in Russian but she will come down and help us for a small fee.
With no other option we take up her offer and about 20 minutes later a young women arrives and proceeds to wade through all the ridiculous paperwork involved on our behalf including a signed statement by us both as to why we where late, to cut a long story short it cost us both $100 plus $30 for the translation help, all in all it seemed a waste of every ones time and a really really bad way to treat tourists who are bring money to your county!
With that done it was too late to leave for the border so we made the most of it and had a look round town, a nice lunch in a coffee house followed in the evening by a return to O’Neil’s Pub for beers and a pub dinner Club Sandwich and fries in my case and Fish & Chips for B
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| Around town (Europe side) |
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| Around Town (Asia Side) |
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| Mosque that looked a lot like it was made of Lego! |
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| Down the Pub |
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| Also down the pub |
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