Category Archives: Travel

MMDA Wants To Make Metro Manila A Walled City

MANILA, Philippines (The Adobo Chronicles, Manila Bureau) – We already have the walled Intramuros, but if the Metropolitan Manila Development Authority (MMDA) had its way, it would like to convert the entire Metro Manila into a walled city.

MMDA has already taken steps to make this happen.

Beginning this April, it will conduct a dry run of its new policy banning all provincial buses from plying the entire stretch of EDSA. Passengers traveling from or to the Northern, Central and Southern Luzon provinces will have to take city buses in order to ride provincial buses at terminals in Bocaue, Bulacan and Santa Rosa, Laguna. Provincial bus terminals along EDSA will all be eventually closed.

Phase 2 of the MMDA plan is to build a wall around Metro Manila to prevent provincial buses from entering the Metropolis.

A la Donald Trump’s border wall.

 

Passengers On British Airways Detained By Scottish Immigration

LONDON, United Kingdom (The Adobo Chronicles. Berlin Bureau) – Passengers on a British Airways flight from London’s City Airport to Dusseldorf in Germany were met with a surprise Monday morning when their plane touched down — in the Scottish capital of Edinburgh.
The misdirected flight was operated by German leasing company WDL Aviation on behalf of the British Airways subsidiary airline BA CityFlyer.  The compny said an incorrect flight plan was filed at WDL Avition’s offices in Germany.
Upon disembarking from the plane, the passengers were met by Scottish immigration authorities. All were detained because none of them  held Scottish visas.  They were subsequently released after the pilot claimed responsibility and promised to fly the passengers to the correct destination .
All’s well that ends in the wrong airport.