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Published: September 3rd 2013
I left Europe for Asia in October 1996. I had a good education, a pretty solid Economics degree from a top European University...some savings from working all over Europe and Africa for Club Med while being a full time student in Belgium...I was ready for an adventure...that I was sure would last at least for few weeks or months...it was, 17 years ago...
Back end of July, I did something that ...
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Home and Away
Bob Carlsen
What a wonderful; idea...
giving your kids some roots. And planning this 24 months in advance...a year before going to Argentina! Too bad they couldn't have spent a whole semester there. But I look forward to reading about your next destinations. I know what you mean about applying for visas from your resident country. My son, Will, got the paperwork from Bangor University that certified he was to be a student there so he could apply for his student visa. He presently has a non-immigrant B visa in Thailand where he is teaching English for the summer. The UK immigration authorities wanted him to fly to the U.S. to apply from there. I insisted he visit the British Consulate in Bangkok to ask if he could apply there. He can...has an appointment on Friday...with the visa due two weeks later...the day before he flies to Manchester. Crazy!