Saturday, October 17, 2009

The answer to the cliffhanger

I mentioned earlier that I had an itinerary change to talk about. Talk about cliffhanger, huh? :-) Well, I kind of forgot about the whole needing a visa thing for India. It takes 4-6 business days for it to be processed and since I was planning on heading to India early next week, clearly I don't have enough time. My choices were to either wait it out in Prague (have I mentioned that it's cold here??) or figure out some other place to go before I go to India.

I pulled out a map to see what was between Prague and India and the two clear choices were either Greece or Istanbul, Turkey. I did some research on flight prices and exchange rates and I booked my flight today. So the answer to the cliffhanger is that I leave Prague on Tuesday and will be heading to...Athens. My current CS host says he has a CS friend in Crete that I could probably stay with, so that's a possibility. And, who knows? I may still hit Istanbul before heading to Mumbai anyway. I'm meeting up with a friend of a friend in Mumbai who will be showing me around for a couple of days and he's leaving on holiday on November 10 so I have to be in India before that, but my schedule is kind of flexible up until then.

What do you think about the change? Pretty cool change of events, right?

6 comments:

  1. If you give me a little notice, I have a friend in Istanbul and you might be able to have a night or two there. Greece is good choice.

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  2. I really need to get out of the country.

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  3. shan,
    i think your idea is great!!!
    i think greece is a much better choice.
    your pics are great too!!, but keep warm
    sweetie.

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  4. Cyndy - Having a friend of a friend to (maybe) stay with in Istanbul would be great. I'll definitely keep you posted and try to give you some advance notice to reach out to your friend.

    Foos - soon enough, man, soon enough! :-)

    Mom - Greece is a better choice than what? You may have misunderstood because India is definitely still happening and Istanbul hasn't left the table of possibilities. I'll keep you posted, of course.

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  5. I looked at all the recent Prague pics you uploaded last night. When I got to the TV tower, I was a bit mystified. Then I looked it up and read how the "art" babies were supposed to be temporary, but since they made a joke of an impending, formerly Communist structure, they kept them. A bit odd looking for sure! I'm still sending warm thoughts your way. And am very excited that you get to add Greece to the itinerary,too. Love ya!

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  6. I've been told by my widely traveled friends that Greece is a must see, and beautiful as well. Love you

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