Day starts at Starbucks as usual. Then my handbag stolen from the bench beside me - with far too much in it, including both our passports and various cards. Wipe both the mini iPad that was in the handbag and the one that is at the hotel as I can’t be sure which is which. Then tell the Starbucks staff, who are genuinely upset. The girl who is shift manager calls the police and then tells me they say I should call. I do, and they’re really nice. Kind and patient and thorough - but not, of course, optimistic. Hopeless trying to find a UK operator to place a collect call, but a combo of fongo app on the ipad and a VPN with a Canadian location do the trick. BMO credit card people super. Debit card results in repeat recording suggesting I call back later. Kudos to the agency Steinbach credit union uses. I wait three minutes through the leave-a-message-or-stay-on-the-line spiel and leave a message saying that they don’t make reporting theft particularly easy and giving a mobile number which I tell them is UK. Five minutes later get a pleasant and efficient call back. Consulate still to deal with. Being a long weekend doesn’t help.
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