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wayfaringwordhack Last week, we sent our passports to the Vietnamese embassy in Paris to get visas. We still don't have them back. We leave here on Monday, on a night train for Paris, to catch the early Eurostar to London. The embassy is closed on Saturdays.
When we try to get an answer out of them about where our passports are, they say we were (I'm paraphrasing here) stupid to send in our passports with such a short delay EVEN THOUGH *THEY* TOLD US IT WAS PLENTY OF TIME. Now they are denying they ever said such a thing.
Also, we got our belongings from Mayotte yesterday. Two boxes are missing.
ETA:
WOOHOO! Scratch the above! Well, not all of it (not the bit about two missing boxes).
Julien just called the embassy (because they said they would call us and didn't). The receptionist said our passports were mailed out yesterday afternoon!
We still don't have them in hand, but overall, things are looking better. Whew.
RE-ETA:
Passports have arrived with visas affixed. Hiphip HOORAY!
When we try to get an answer out of them about where our passports are, they say we were (I'm paraphrasing here) stupid to send in our passports with such a short delay EVEN THOUGH *THEY* TOLD US IT WAS PLENTY OF TIME. Now they are denying they ever said such a thing.
Also, we got our belongings from Mayotte yesterday. Two boxes are missing.
ETA:
WOOHOO! Scratch the above! Well, not all of it (not the bit about two missing boxes).
Julien just called the embassy (because they said they would call us and didn't). The receptionist said our passports were mailed out yesterday afternoon!
We still don't have them in hand, but overall, things are looking better. Whew.
RE-ETA:
Passports have arrived with visas affixed. Hiphip HOORAY!
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Date: 18 Sep 2009 08:05 am (UTC)I hope the embassy gets their finger out today (pardon my language) and that the missing boxes will turn up soon.
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Date: 18 Sep 2009 08:20 am (UTC)You know for the visa, now we have to hope for the boxes.
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Date: 18 Sep 2009 11:08 am (UTC)no subject
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Date: 18 Sep 2009 12:18 pm (UTC)And yay! on visas.
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Date: 18 Sep 2009 12:56 pm (UTC)no subject
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Date: 18 Sep 2009 01:41 pm (UTC)I do love a happy ending :)
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Date: 18 Sep 2009 06:46 pm (UTC)I guess this'll just serve as one last dose of super-tension before you get to relax on the long trip...
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Date: 19 Sep 2009 02:02 pm (UTC)Sorry to hear about the missing boxes. I hope they turn up soon.
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Date: 19 Sep 2009 02:45 pm (UTC)As if I needed one
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Date: 19 Sep 2009 03:03 pm (UTC)Are we on for Friday the 25th? Where shall we meet and at what time? I'd like to do the Museum of Natural History with you or whatever else you are up for/suggest.
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Date: 19 Sep 2009 03:04 pm (UTC)I'm assuming that you're all packed and raring to go - or almost packed and surfing on the adrenaline! Either way, have a wonderful trip.
Sorry I won't be seeing you this time round. Maybe later ;-)
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Date: 19 Sep 2009 03:05 pm (UTC)As for the boxes, I'm not holding my breath. But in any case, it was a whiteboard (expensive for what it was but oh well), and a malagasy chair. That one hurst worse, but better that than a slew of our other belongings.
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Date: 19 Sep 2009 03:14 pm (UTC)And not maybe later...Definitely later. :D
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