Visa issues

It would be a lot Better being an expat wife if there was a bit more sitting around in hairdressers and by the swimming pool, and a lot less anxiety over travel plans for 15 year old boys. But it seems that in the last month the rules about getting visitor visas here have changed almost weekly. Now there are no visitor visas so Theo cannot come out here at all. There will be a lot of sadness. Matilda was really looking forward to seeing him, Toby however will have quite a job putting all Theos things back in his room! theo even misses the kids and he will not get to see Harry either.

So I will have to travel out to the uk for a bit longer than originally intended leaving everyone else here.

on the plus side, I have now learnt how to say the numbers in Azeri and can now converse with stall holders in the bazaar. The visit this week was much more successful because I could understand those tricky multiples of 10 numbers so essential for buying small quantities of chillis. The stall holders do not have much change so better to deal in coins and one manat notes. I carry around quite a wad of filthy Luca. Literally filthy. So except for the incident where I asked for 500 kilos of walnuts instead of 500 grams, everything went smoothly. Next week I shall take my camera and photograph some of the more interesting stalls with the pig heads and the cheese in the sheep stomachs.