Blogs from Middle East - page 927

been on tour for a bıt now. hıs keyboard ıs really strange. letters all over the place lol. umm trıp ıs goıng really well place ıs really pretty and the tour group ıs great. ç ğ ş some of the letters on thıs thıng lol um ın a place on the agean sea at the moment, really pretty everyone ıs great and havıng a ball people are nıce but have lımıted tıme on thıs thıng so shall keep ıt short. have anzac day ın 2 days whıch wıll be ıntense somethıng lıke ten thousand people wıll be there huge! goıng to be brıllıant! weather ıs warm and ıim gettıng the shıts wıth thıs keyboard lol. gotta run ıim alıve and well love you hugs benny ççşşççöö... read more

some photos. Today we went to the Grand Bazaar and bought lots of prezzıes.... read more

Step one is now completed and I am now the proud owner of a Syrian Visa. Trying to locate the Syrian Consulate in Dubai was an interesting exercise as it appears they do not like to answer there phones instead preffering to send us to a non existant website! Lama came to my rescue by ringing and listening to the arabic versions and I eventually found the requirements online with a visa form. My first attempt at going to the visa was reasonably succesful a random map which showed the locations of all the schools in Dubai and one of the schools was apparantly close to the consulate and thus helped me locate the general area of the embassy and off I toddled. I arrived at the Consulate without getting to lost and couldn't believe it ... read more

The flight: $140 USD Shay and I flew from Izmir to Istanbul on Saturday morning. The Atlas Jet flight was only 40 minutes long and we were actually served a meal, a brown bread, pimento cheese sandwich along with our choice of beverage. I, of course, chose çay (Turkish tea), which I have become very fond of. It is served in a clear, small, tulip shaped glass with a couple of optional sugar cubes and a little, tiny spoon to stir. Our Hostel: $18 USD per person, per night (female dorm) We had no trouble taking the Metro from the airport to Sultanahmet (the old European side of Istanbul...very touristy). Once we arrived in Sultanahamet, we were totally lost. Luckily, we recieved help from a local man that has moved to Florida and was back for ... read more

To get to Germany is a bit of a mission, especially when you go for the cheapest flights. That meant that I had to fly 8 hours to Dubai, and then spend another 8 hours at the airport before leaving on another 6and a half hour flight to Munich. (Which is a bit of a miracle in itself as when I booked the tickets there was a mixup between my dad and I and for a while there were no tickets, and then suddenly tickets at R1000 cheaper than the previous tickets, amazing grace) It's not too bad to be in dubai airport for so long, a lot of people spend so long in shopping centres, and that is basically what the airport is. Some of the highlights of the trip was meeting Philip Morkel from ... read more