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Today, I went to make visas for me and my mum for going to Istanbul. I must admit I was rather disappointed about the fact that I had to pay nearly 80 Euros for both visas to be staying in Istanbul from Saturday until Thursday. And Turkey seeks a membership for EU!!!! So European Union gave them a definite date for accession negotiations, they are trying hard to get in, but they wouldn’t change visa policy for EU members. Interesting.
Anyway, I haven’t even start planning anything yet, all I got are flight tickets and vouchers for the hotel. Which was of course chosen on one main criteria: whether they offer internet access to their guests or not. Apparently, the manager seems to be a net geek, he’s constantly online, so I managed to chat to him about all sorts of useful information. The hotel has a nice Turkish bath (mmmm, I love baths) and it’s very historically stylized. In fact it is an old Ottoman house, renewed and converted into a hotel. It is located in the heart of Sultanamet so we will have all historical monuments just in front of us. Am looking forward to discover all this … and since hotel is net friendly:), I will hopefully manage to blog as well.
Well, originally I was going to do this mum-bday trip to Israel (we would at least feel the temperature difference there), but heck, Slovenian airline company just withdraw their flights to Tel Aviv for safety and security reasons probably. And just as a tease, they still keep it in their flight map. I tried to find flights from abroad but was way too complicated. Then I got so much used to the idea that we were gonna go more east and not west again, that I chose Istanbul. Well, there were some tempting offers from various agencies for Egypt or Tunisia but since I prefer to organise the trip myself, Istanbul will be. And am sure will be cool:)))))
By | January 10, 2005 | Topics: Uncategorized |