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Originally Posted by accyman
if thats how you want it perhaps a move to russia for you would be best
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Picking up on Accyman’s comments to me above on the “Who Owns What “Thread and seeing that EasyJet are now flying out of Manchester to Moscow. I thought “What the heck, ticks in a box and all that*, I’ll take my little babushka over for a weekend break ”
Flights booked for October £95 each, so far so good
Hotel near Domodedovo Airport offering free shuttle bus into downtown Moscow 3 nights £150, so far so good.
Then it got messy !
Will I need a tourist visa? well I’ll tell you this for nothing.
The process is flipping labyrinthine
First you need an official invitation to travel, obtained from tourist office or hotel at a cost £25ish
With that you then make a visa application costing north of £100 each……
So what was going to be a budget break now the costs are now going up faster than the proverbial bride’s nightie.
We have become so used to zipping at will around Europe and the States using low cost carriers like buses.
Ho Hum
The current Mrs P says “DP the savvy traveller, not”
Methinks I will have to make an adjustment to her housekeeping and not tell her the Zhiguli Beer Hall is on our itinerary.
*Also from watching ITV’s new espionage series “The Americans”