I got up at 0630 this morning as we needed to get our visas from the Mongolian Embassy, which is the only reason for coming to Ankara in the first place.No hot water!If anyone knows me, then they know that I can't abide a cold water shower, so, none to chuffed, I strolled downstairs from the 7th floor to find the same useless chap telling me there was a problem!I was in a temper and let him know it, even calling him stupid, but it all seemed to wash over him, 'problem, problem', he repeated.I gave up but told him that I wanted to speak to the manager when he arrived so we waited and waited and waited.By the time he arrived at 1000, I had relented and frozen my bits off in the shower and at our insistence moved from room 703 to 707.Room 707 smelled and also had no hot water so we moved again to 408 which seems ok.They love us here already!

So much for getting to the embassy at 0800.It was now 1030 and we still needed to get the €120 needed for the visas, and drive the 15 minutes or so to Mongolia's little piece of home in Turkey.After waiting for us to withdraw Turkish lira from an ATM, then change it to Euros in the bank, our friendly taxi driver was on the verge of getting a parking ticket but Maria emerged, money in hand just in time.Anyway, the driver has no idea where the embassy is so he gets help from his colleagues on route and we eventually get to the right neighbourhood.We want 'house' number 109...56...'It's on the other side of the road then', pipes up Maria.87, 103, 109, there it is...the Vietnamese Embassy.It turns out that the Mongolian embassy moved across town 6-months ago which explains why Maria had been calling and calling, emailing and emailing back in the UK with no response.Their new website is under construction and the old one has yet to be taken down.So 15TL down we dart through the traffic in the same taxi, conscious that time is pressing on.We eventually find the embassy, which is stuck in the middle of a building site behind a mall, and, as predicted by Maria, is totally dead except for one Italian and one Brit.The official was extremely pleasant and efficient and within 15 minutes we had our visas - so much for 3 days!We took advantage of the driver and popped into a supermarket to get some groceries on the way home but he declined to take us to the bus station in 2 day's so we reckon we may have just pushed our luck a little too far.Going to bed was uneventful.