Comments on: Travelling to Asia and back http://rickyyates.com/travelling-to-asia-and-back/ Ricky Yates - A blog and more Sun, 29 Aug 2010 08:30:43 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0.1 By: Sabrina@group travel http://rickyyates.com/travelling-to-asia-and-back/comment-page-1/#comment-10288 Sabrina@group travel Fri, 23 Jul 2010 08:13:42 +0000 http://rickyyates.com/?p=620#comment-10288 Wow, this sounds like an adventure indeed! I've always loved to travel ... much more so if it involves jumping into a car with the roads and highways of the world stretched out in front of me. There's something about the freedom and leisure you get to enjoy when you're on your own. But, I guess I'll only get to read about such adventures for now. I bet it'll be really difficult to have my 18-month-old-daughter in tow for the kinds of trips I have in mind. Oh well. I'll give it another year or two ... :) Wow, this sounds like an adventure indeed! I’ve always loved to travel … much more so if it involves jumping into a car with the roads and highways of the world stretched out in front of me. There’s something about the freedom and leisure you get to enjoy when you’re on your own. But, I guess I’ll only get to read about such adventures for now. I bet it’ll be really difficult to have my 18-month-old-daughter in tow for the kinds of trips I have in mind. Oh well. I’ll give it another year or two … :)

]]> By: Ricky http://rickyyates.com/travelling-to-asia-and-back/comment-page-1/#comment-8984 Ricky Wed, 17 Mar 2010 09:01:11 +0000 http://rickyyates.com/?p=620#comment-8984 Brian - We had a bit of fun at the Bulgaria - Turkey border as described in this blogpost. And Turkey does require UK citizens to purchase an entry visa (cost £10/€15) on arrival at the border which we already knew about. But in reality it is an entry tax as there was no form to complete to apply for it! As EU citizens (I am British, my wife is German), we could freely travel within & between EU countries. Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia & Bosnia, all of which are not EU members, allow EU citizens to visit without the need for a visa. Regarding the car, Serbia & Turkey as I remember it, wanted to see my 'Green Card' insurance certificate. But only Turkey made a fuss about recording the car details and lecturing me about not trying to sell it in Turkey but to travel back out the country with it, which I also mention in this blogpost. As for travelling any further, it would be possible as the car is insured to drive in Russia and Iran. However I'm not sure I would want to travel that far and there is also the ever increasing cost of petrol to consider too. Brian – We had a bit of fun at the Bulgaria – Turkey border as described in this blogpost. And Turkey does require UK citizens to purchase an entry visa (cost £10/€15) on arrival at the border which we already knew about. But in reality it is an entry tax as there was no form to complete to apply for it! As EU citizens (I am British, my wife is German), we could freely travel within & between EU countries. Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia & Bosnia, all of which are not EU members, allow EU citizens to visit without the need for a visa.

Regarding the car, Serbia & Turkey as I remember it, wanted to see my ‘Green Card’ insurance certificate. But only Turkey made a fuss about recording the car details and lecturing me about not trying to sell it in Turkey but to travel back out the country with it, which I also mention in this blogpost.

As for travelling any further, it would be possible as the car is insured to drive in Russia and Iran. However I’m not sure I would want to travel that far and there is also the ever increasing cost of petrol to consider too.

]]> By: Brian@natural stone veneer http://rickyyates.com/travelling-to-asia-and-back/comment-page-1/#comment-8959 Brian@natural stone veneer Tue, 16 Mar 2010 19:01:39 +0000 http://rickyyates.com/?p=620#comment-8959 Wow! It sounds like you two had a fantastic adventure and top marks go to you for doing the complete trip in a car and not following the rest of the tourist crowd. Was it difficult to get through the borders in the car and how about the visas? If you’re planning on doing another trip, perhaps you could consider going a bit further down into Asia. I guess the problem may be getting through countries like Iran and Afghanistan, but there is a possibility of going via Russia and Kazakhstan, then down through Mongolia into China. I may be getting a little far out now, but I love traveling, thanks for the stories keep it up. .-= Brian@natural stone veneer´s last blog ..<a href="http://manualjuicer.org/manual-juicer/main/">A manual juicer is the perfect addition</a> =-. Wow! It sounds like you two had a fantastic adventure and top marks go to you for doing the complete trip in a car and not following the rest of the tourist crowd. Was it difficult to get through the borders in the car and how about the visas? If you’re planning on doing another trip, perhaps you could consider going a bit further down into Asia. I guess the problem may be getting through countries like Iran and Afghanistan, but there is a possibility of going via Russia and Kazakhstan, then down through Mongolia into China. I may be getting a little far out now, but I love traveling, thanks for the stories keep it up.
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]]> By: Ricky http://rickyyates.com/travelling-to-asia-and-back/comment-page-1/#comment-3327 Ricky Sat, 31 Oct 2009 20:25:03 +0000 http://rickyyates.com/?p=620#comment-3327 Karen - Yes it was quite an adventure & I hope you'll enjoy my future posts about the trip over the next couple of weeks. Minnie - Glad you like the descriptions. Very sorry to hear about your car. Whilst we use mine relatively little within Prague, because of the excellent intergrated public tranport system, it is a great boon for trips & holidays. Yes it was a good buy - I outlined my reasons for bringing it to the Czech Republic in an earlier post http://rickyyates.com/driving-on-the-right-side-of-the-road/. The Turkish roads we travelled on were a revelation - far better than many here in the Czech Republic. The worst roads we met all dated from Communist times, namely the Sofia ring-road, some of the more country roads in southern Serbia which we traversed on our way home, together with parts of the Prague-Brno motorway nearer to Brno which are very uneven. Karen – Yes it was quite an adventure & I hope you’ll enjoy my future posts about the trip over the next couple of weeks.

Minnie – Glad you like the descriptions. Very sorry to hear about your car. Whilst we use mine relatively little within Prague, because of the excellent intergrated public tranport system, it is a great boon for trips & holidays. Yes it was a good buy – I outlined my reasons for bringing it to the Czech Republic in an earlier post http://rickyyates.com/driving-on-the-right-side-of-the-road/.

The Turkish roads we travelled on were a revelation – far better than many here in the Czech Republic. The worst roads we met all dated from Communist times, namely the Sofia ring-road, some of the more country roads in southern Serbia which we traversed on our way home, together with parts of the Prague-Brno motorway nearer to Brno which are very uneven.

]]> By: Minnie http://rickyyates.com/travelling-to-asia-and-back/comment-page-1/#comment-3305 Minnie Sat, 31 Oct 2009 11:13:39 +0000 http://rickyyates.com/?p=620#comment-3305 Golly, what a journey! Fantastic descriptions, though, Ricky - and I'm thoroughly envious, as I love driving (miss having a car since own vandalised by yobs before insurance cover effective post return from Ireland: welcome to Britain!). Really appreciate all the facts. And, yes, I'd have expected Turkish roads to be more primitive than that. That car was obviously A Good Buy! Golly, what a journey! Fantastic descriptions, though, Ricky – and I’m thoroughly envious, as I love driving (miss having a car since own vandalised by yobs before insurance cover effective post return from Ireland: welcome to Britain!). Really appreciate all the facts. And, yes, I’d have expected Turkish roads to be more primitive than that.
That car was obviously A Good Buy!

]]> By: Karen http://rickyyates.com/travelling-to-asia-and-back/comment-page-1/#comment-3271 Karen Fri, 30 Oct 2009 21:21:04 +0000 http://rickyyates.com/?p=620#comment-3271 Wow, what a cool adventure! I love road trips. Wow, what a cool adventure! I love road trips.

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