September 06, 2004
Thanks!
So, we are home again....damn! I hate the end of a holiday! Spain was wonderful, despite some unplanned excitement over lost passports, money, tickets, credit cards and camera. Hopefully sometime tomorrow I'll get time to blog about our trip and then who knows, get the wedding and Spain photos sorted?
But in the meantime, we would like to thank the following people who all went to so much trouble to make sure that what could have been a horrible holiday-spoiling accident became nothing more than a few days inconvenience and a nice-way-to-get-to-know-the-locals!
Thankyou to:
-Sonja and Juan in the Netherlands who took the calls from the Spanish police in Valencia de Don Juan and worked out to whom the bag they were talking about belonged!
-Peter and Vanusa in Amsterdam who phoned half of Ijsselstein to track down Ron's parents.
-Corrie and Wim who passed on messages and blocked cards.
-the officers at the Guardia Civilia in Valencia de Don Juan, Leon, Spain who telephoned the Netherlands after our bag was found, not once but twice in an effort to find the owners.
-and last but definetley not least, to Anne-Marie Flynn, Gonzalo Vereterna, Marcos Garcia Granda and Carlos Gonzalez Bodega at the Guardia Civilia in El Pinto, Asturia, Spain who spent hours with us on Saturday when we reported our bag lost, arranged new airline tickets, arranged somewhere for us to stay, lent us their football pools winnings so we could buy food etc, admired Jacob and generally sorted out all our problems until money transfers etc could be arranged on Monday.
-and also to their colleagues at Guardia Civilia in El Pinto who accompanied us on Monday to the Post Office and bank in Cudillero so that we could collect our money without ID and who rang the Guardia Civilia in Valencia de Don Juan after we got the message from Holland about our bag.
Cudillero, Asturia, Spain! There can't be a nicer place to find yourself stateless, moneyless and without a roof over your head!
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