Pan Am Flight 103, brought down by explosive in a radio.
The radio was packed by the owner - a “friend” had asked him/her to give to someone at the destination.
Last I heard, Germany still had a law against depictions of Hitler or Nazi insignia.
Doubt is anyone calling themselves National Socialist would get too far using that name publicly.
Maybe I could be Hilo Hattie. Wrong gender, but after Thailand no one will raise an eyebrow.
Huh. Well, here’s an interesting development. Yesterday (Friday) made 10 days since the wife’s visa interview at the US Embassy and still no passport back in the mail. We know these things can take time, but a friend of hers got her passport back in just three days last month. They gave her an EMS tracking number, but the website said there was no information. She logged onto the website where she had scheduled her interview, and it said her passport was still at the embassy. Huh.
So we called the Visa Section at the embassy, and there was a recording saying that due to a technical difficulty, all visas issued after June 8 had been delayed. Said this was not a local problem but worldwide. Also, all visa interviews to be held this week would have to be rescheduled. Huh.
Fortunately, she’s not needing her passport anytime soon. We’ll be traveling in northern Thailand next month, but that’s a domestic trip. (Even if she did need to travel somewhere internationally, being a civil servant she also has a separate government passport she could use.) A friend of mine told me yesterday when I mentioned this that she’d seen it in the news last week, that there was some sort of problem like this and that it was global. This is just a guess, but I’m thinking this may be related to that Chinese hacking.
Shakes fist at China
And I just learned from another thread that it’s “a hardware issue linked to biometric data. The failure prevented officials from processing and transmitting fingerprints and photographs for security checks.”
No worries. We’ll get it when we get it. The government even in normal circumstances does caution visa applicants not to make irrevocable travel arrangements until they get the visa.