Thank You James Rose ----- Original Message ----- From: "James Mnichowicz" <jimmnich@yahoo.com> To: <polandbordersurnames@rootsweb.com> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2007 9:21 PM Subject: Re: [PBS] Advice on Travel to Belarus Please > Hi there Rose > > Four of us traveled to Belarus in 2006 looking for family. > > You have to be invited to visit the country before you can get a visa to > visit the country. I beleive we got ours from the Belarus embassy here in > the states before we went. The cost was 60 dollars for the visa. > Make sure you have a health insurance policy while you are in that > country. We got ours thru the tour company. We crossed the border and > they tried to sell us health insurance but luckily we had papers that > proved we had the insurance. They were very testy about this. > We had a couple from Poland with us so they arranged a van for traveling > ; thru a cousin who lives in Belarus. > The people we talked to in the villages were very friendly. In the > cities I wouldn't walk alone especially at night. The people are very > serious in the cities and you never hear any spontainous laughter. They > just tend to their business. They told us not to dress or act different > to call attention to yourself when we went. We did search for our > families and it was an uneventful trip there. > James > > > > > > Jack and Rose <thankgod@optonline.net> wrote: > Hi > > Has anyone in the group traveled to Belarus??? > > I would like to plan a trip there in the future.... > > Any advice would be helpful > > Thanks and God bless > > Rose Zydel Olson > ThankGod@optonline.net > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > POLANDBORDERSURNAMES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > > --------------------------------- > Get the Yahoo! toolbar and be alerted to new email wherever you're > surfing. > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > POLANDBORDERSURNAMES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' > without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message >