we made our way across town today to go to the syrian visa. bad news. turns out that first of all, if you want to get a visa from there, you have to get there before 11:30 which we didnt. secondly, they said that we have to get a letter of reccomendation from the US embassy in order to get a visa. from what i’ve read on lonely planet, it’s near impossible to get this letter. crap. we tried to locate and call the Us embassy, but unfortunately, both phone numbers that we had for it were no good. we got a cab to go there, but upon arriving it turned out that the Us embassy *used to* be there, but now was located across town. arrrgghh!! anyways, now we have to wait till tomorrow to try and get this letter and hopefully get to the syrian embassy by 11:30. if we succeed, we’ll be able to leave istanbul the following day. we’ll have ended up staying here for 7 days instead of the 3 we initially planned. on the other hand, if we cant get this visa, there is no way for us to get to jordan from here (syria is in the way) and we’ll probably have to end up buying plane tix which are bank. *sigh*.<\/p>\n
didnt do too much else today. we ate again at our favorite restaurant. heh, this is the third time we’ve gone there in the last few days, but we just cant resist it!!<\/p>\n
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