Ok, first and foremost, check out the impossibly oversized hat on the Ukranian border official. Seriously? That is the uniform? It makes anyone wearing it appear at best to be a buffoon, and at worst to be a cartoon character. You have no trouble figuring out from the get go that crossing this border is going to be a challenge.
On our way into Ukraine we got all the way up to the window, the final step, and were told that no, we were not a car, we were a bus, and would need to enter the truck and bus line (which stretched as far as the eye could see. Okay, that is not good, and we had already spent an hour on the process. We get into the other line when suddenly the booths go black. Closed. No explanation, no estimated time of reopening. It was two hours before they reopened, and another hour or so before we got through. In retrospect, I wish I had eaten before we got to the border, and used a bathroom, because both were nowhere to be found. Welcome to a beaurocratic regime!
Ok, first and foremost, check out the impossibly oversized hat on the Ukranian border official. Seriously? That is the uniform? It makes anyone wearing it appear at best to be a buffoon, and at worst to be a cartoon character. You have no trouble figuring out from the get go that crossing this border is going to be a challenge.
On our way into Ukraine we got all the way up to the window, the final step, and were told that no, we were not a car, we were a bus, and would need to enter the truck and bus line (which stretched as far as the eye could see. Okay, that is not good, and we had already spent an hour on the process. We get into the other line when suddenly the booths go black. Closed. No explanation, no estimated time of reopening. It was two hours before they reopened, and another hour or so before we got through. In retrospect, I wish I had eaten before we got to the border, and used a bathroom, because both were nowhere to be found. Welcome to a beaurocratic regime!
No comments:
Post a Comment