The wonderful world of embassies and visa

My Indian friends always tell me how visa basically rule their world. Coming from the Schengen region, it is always hard to imagine what that is like. Luckily there is some kind of justice, when visiting India it is payback time!!!!

First of all, I needed to pay a ridicilous amount of money to the Indian embassy, along with travelling there (and ofcourse it is not centrally located (for Dutch standards)). Second, the embassy itself was in a state of total chaos and I was pertrified they would loose my passport (in the time I was standing at the counter, they had already managed to lose 3). Third, you have to apply for a visa between 930 and 1100 in the morning and then pick it up again between 1530 and 1600. In other words, your day is ruined or you need two trips to The Hague to the non-centrally located embassy.

In the end I got a very nice looking visum for India though. Tomorrow morning I will leave.