Peregrina you are probably right. I'd like to think she turned away out of embarrassment but I think she probably decided I wasn't the sort of person she should be talking to.
I do think it is interesting to see the two different worlds, the one where I am a white woman out and about and doing my thing, and half of a couple who can get ignored in a shop or insulted by the bigots.
I agree about the visas, it will be fun.
Just as an added bit of amusement when I was about 19 I was working as a temp, one of the women in the office came back from lunch and was most upset. When asked what was wrong she explained there was a long queue at the post office and people in front of her were black, she felt it was so wrong as her father had fought in WWII to keep this country white. It went quiet as people looked a bit awkward but what the hell I was only going to be there for one more day so it didn't matter if I upset her so I said, "It was Hitler and the nazis who were the racists not us. Which army was your dad in British or German." I'm not joking, she was amazed and said she wasn't sure if her father realised, she'd have to ask him about it but she was sure he fought to keep Britain white.
Another moment where you just don't know if you should laugh or cry.