Day trip to el Tor
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So it’s that time again, time to sort out the old visa. We all love that day because it means a trip up to the lovely El Tor. In all honesty we don’t get to see the true town (which apparently is pretty nice… so they say), we only get to see the government building in which they house the passport office. And in true local style, it pretty much resembles a prison office. With bars at the windows and everything! Not a computer in sight, everything hand written in big log books, but some how, amazingly everything is on record and traceable! We have an hour and a half trip up the coast where we marvel at the mountains and look out to see the little dive boats moored on Thistlegorm (funny how it takes sooo long to get there by sea), and after another hour and a half sat in the dingy offices, we are back on our way home. Thankfully there were a few of us, I do remember my first time there when I was totally alone, hadn’t even thought to bring a book, so sat tapping my feet for a couple of hours while my documents were passed back and forth behind the glass window. |