Applying for a Turkish e-visa and crossing the Lesovo / Hamzabeyli border
According to my Bulgarian friends it was unusually hot for an October day. It was 23 degrees at 11:00 in the morning and expected to rise to 27 during the rest of the day. It was my first time travelling anywhere outside of Europe and only having had 3 days notice of our trip to Edirne, I had not had much to time research the town or Turkey as a whole. I thought I needed a visa to enter Turkey and a quick check on the UK government website confirmed this and helpfully they provided a link to the official website to get one - https://www.evisa.gov.tr/ The application process is simple, all you need is your passport and a credit/debit card. It costs 20 US dollars and the whole process can be completed within 10 minutes. You are immediately emailed a pdf e-visa which you present at the border on your phone with your passport. It's probably a good idea to take a hard copy with you in case your phone runs out of battery. Even though we arrived at the border relatively early at ...