Hooray!\u00a0 Nakia has obtained the Schengen Visa for Western Europe!<\/p>\n
We feared and loathed it.\u00a0 We thought it would be far worse than the terrible Bulgarian Visa.\u00a0 We scrambled around printing off reams of documents,\u00a0 transferring money, reserving hotels, writing consuls and ambassadors and others and figuring out our route months in advance.<\/p>\n
Thursday morning Nakia walked into the French Embassy in Belgrade with reams of documents, bank statements, hotel reservations, maps and a heck of a lot of other stuff I’ve already forgotten.\u00a0 At 3:30pm she returned and was handed a 90 day Schengen visa.\u00a0 Holly cow!\u00a0 We were so surprised we barely knew what to do.<\/p>\n
To all of you who wrote the Schengen country embassies in Belgrade: Thanks!\u00a0 It no doubt made the process much faster.<\/p>\n
The visa doesn’t start till August 20th.\u00a0 Until just before that date, we will stay in Belgrade with our Beijing acquaintance, now back in Serbia, Lela.\u00a0 Her mother feeds us enormous amounts of food and never lets us help clean up.\u00a0 When we leave, we will be fat and lazy.<\/p>\n
Until then, we will relish the food and the easy visa snatch.\u00a0 Thanks again to all those who wrote ambassadors.<\/p>\n
-Jim<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Hooray!\u00a0 Nakia has obtained the Schengen Visa for Western Europe! We feared and loathed it.\u00a0 We thought it would be far worse than the terrible Bulgarian Visa.\u00a0 We scrambled around printing off reams of documents,\u00a0 transferring money, reserving hotels, writing consuls and ambassadors and others and figuring out our route months in advance. Thursday morning […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-196","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-here-you-will-find-the-posts-that-jim-wrote"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=196"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/196\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=196"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=196"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/0708.fueledbyrice.org\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=196"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}