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03 Aug 2013 5:44 PM by mike_walsh Star rating in Torrevieja. 594 posts Send private message

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Reading about the 33-year old Graham Hughes from Liverpool who has visited 201 countries in the world. He did it in 4 years and on a budget of just £65 per week. Great stuff! Well done.

 

What I cannot understand is how he gets around the visa requirements. My Ukrainian fiancé spent a fortune and prepared masses of paperwork, then waited a week or more just to visit Spain as a tourist. It involved a 500 mile round trip to the Spanish embassy in Kiev. The same rigmarole for going to Gibraltar, the UK, Latvia.

 

To get a visa to any one of these countries and others, Russians, are obliged to jump through more expensive hoops than you can shake a stick at.

 

How does this guy do it? It sounds to me like visa-free travel. I have an Iranian friend here in Torrevieja. A bit of an eccentric but in the nicest possible way. She caught a flight from Alicante to Paris. She wanted to see the Louvre. Whoa! Arrested at the airport - though she has lived here in Spain for years and has a villa here. She was given the option. Return to Alicante or go to gaol. She opted for the latter. Said she enjoyed it and the camaraderie but was released after two weeks - and put on as plane for Alicante. An interesting world indeed.



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03 Aug 2013 10:01 PM by baz1946 Star rating. 2327 posts Send private message

Someone from Liverpool is a Brit and most Brits can travel almost anywhere in the world, trouble free, the Russians, Iranians, and all these other countries where trouble and mayhem is considered a favourite past time have brought all this on their selves with all the past activities, so who can blame any country for not wanting them and doing their best to make things hard to enter.

The UK would be a better safer place if we adopted some of these rules as well.





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