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Friday, March 13, 2009

Good News Visa and Open Stuff

Yes we have it our 12 month russian bussiness Visa. Last week I started early in the morning with my bicycle and my GPS and going through Tokyo to go to Roppongi to pick up the Visa at the russian embassy having a suit in my bacckpack. Arriving at McDonalds which is a good place to change to "bussiness" man and just picking up the Visa everything is fine and would like to drink a beer (:). After that got my bicycle and go another 40 min to my working place the Tokyo Institute of technology in Ookayama. It is always nice to take the bicycle and just cross the city not knowing before which way you will take, seeing new things and being most of the time faster or same time than the totally crowded trains with all the people with there tired eyes without a sign of live inside the eyes. Of course it is not everybody but I think 80% of the people at least.

Anyway with this 12 month Russian Visa we are save now and can return everytime we want by just driving home just in case something goes wrong. We do not hope but nobody knows. The other Visa we will try to arrange during the journey as we do not know now our exact schedule.

The Visa stuff is solved but new stuff is waiting to be solved. As the Yen is so strong and the Russians increased the import tax for foreign cars they do not buy that many cars. Consequently the ferries are empty and the one we wanted to go with may not opperate. The agent from the company will tell us one week in advance if the ferry will go or not. But fortunately I found another ferry for the car the Fesco company and hope this will work out. The strange thing is always, that the shipping agents respond quite fast to the first e-mail but if you have more questions and ask where to book they need long time to answer or do not answer at all. The estimated departure date for the car will be around 23th or 24th or ... of April.

Actually we still do not have the car in Tokyo now since the registration of the car is another long story. The car is a Diesel therefore it is not allowed to register and to drive in Tokyo. That means Kotomi need to move to another place almost at the West coast of Japan (Niigata) . Then she needed to get the parking license for the car which took us again almost 4 weeks just because she could not do at the same day she went there to change her address. Now we have actually everything but the car dealer decided he still need to change some parts, that is nice for us but I am asking myself why they start so late since I bought the car already in december so they had almost 2 months to do something. Anyway finally we hope that we can get the car to Tokyo (do not tell anybody (:)) in the end of March. That means I will have only a little time to prepare the car for the journey, but that is live and I can not change.

Next is how to come to Vladivostok since we can not go on the ship with the car. Now we are thinking to go by ferry from Shimonoseki (Japan) to Busan in Korea and then take the train to Seoul and visit our friend Yung Sun. From there we can take the plane or another ferry to Vladivostok. For now this is just an idea but let see if it is working out.


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