Yet another extreme experience…
Coming back home at half past one a.m. I had to realize, that water started to run from the ceilings… the flooring was all wet. At 3 a.m. the emergency agency answered our calling attempts to tell us, they will inform the necessary people at 9 a.m… At 6 a.m. after the neighbors both below us, and the one below them also called, this time promising an humble reward, an emergency crew of two people came, by the way, mentioning they represent 50% of the agency’s man power, having more than 70 requests for this evening all around the city..






On the first Wednesday after getting my invitation I went to the embassy with all papers prepared – it was also the first week of June. The whole procedure was supposed to take ca. 4 weeks. I hoped there wouldn’t be so many people applying for a visa at that time of the year and I was lucky – mine was done in one week. Moreover Wednesday is that kind of day, where not so many people find the time for such tasks – the most chose Mondays or Fridays. Therefore again, if it suits you I strongly recommend applying on Wednesday in the first week of June.
There are fundamentally two things one needs in order to get a Russian visa in Berlin: patience, and a smile (: