Spain pt.2

The wonderful Ferria festival as talked about in my last blog entry
also has a downside.
Due to a lot of drinking and an overall relaxed atmosphere crime goes
up during this one week celebration.
Crooks, thiefs, burglars ... take an advantage of locals and tourists
who are a bit too careless when the whole city is one big party.
So 2 days ago it happened to me and my brother. Our bag got stolen
and we weren´t even drunk... We were on a crowded beach just going
for a quick swim between work and tapas and suddenly it was gone.
Noone saw anything or anyone - fast and effective and extremely
painful for us because in this bag we had everything from cell phones
to wallets, my passport, keys, cash, creditcards, mp3 player,
glasses, both of our wonderful digital cameras (mine almost
brandnew) and my lovely summer hat which I bought in Coney Island, NY
earlier this year. We thought we would be super smart by putting my
brothers smaller bag into my bag so we don´t have all those bags
laying around...
Fucked up situation. No cash and no identification. At this point I
have no idea how I am going to leave the country again... I thought
about walking or hitch hiking since there is no real border patrol
between european countries anymore - but I guess this is going to
take forever. On monday I have to contact the german embassy and
maybe they can give me some papers I can use to board the plane. To
be honest I really hope that they have some sort of electronic file
about me so that I can prove my identity, maybe even something that
has pictures of me or little notes about my tatoos and scars and all
that. It must have been wild loosing your identification 50 years
ago. I can´t even imagine how it worked back then.
Luckily my brother still had the keys to his apartment as well as an
extra phone in his pocket. In the course of the night we managed to
cancel all of our cards, went to the police to file a denuncia and
got a friend to give us some money for food. Some time after midnight
we were finished with reducing the damage so we went out and had a
few drinks and tapas and only then I realised that I hadn´t eaten in
over 12 hours... what a day.
If the thiefs were not too smart our bank accounts should be fine.
Also my brother has an extra lock on the apartment door so I guess we
are safe. What hurts me or us the most are the digital cameras and
the other stuff which is real money that is gone forever. Considering
the fact that I am so broke I shouldn´t even be here I really got
beaten down.
No camera - no photos - sorry.
Off for better days.