So as the title says I've lost a credit card, but apparently it was picked up by some other pilgrims and they plan to leave it for me somewhere in Pamplona. If this is you, please get in touch and let me know where to collect it. Thanks!
Have you got it yet?So as the title says I've lost a credit card, but apparently it was picked up by some other pilgrims and they plan to leave it for me somewhere in Pamplona. If this is you, please get in touch and let me know where to collect it. Thanks!
Late update! But the magic of the Camino showed itself.
I started walking back to see if I could find it. Bumped into a woman pilgrim who asked if anything was wrong and I explained the situation. She told me that a man had found it and picked it up and was going to leave it in Pamplona for me. He must have passed right by me!
About an hour or so later I'm just nearing Pamplona. I got into a cafe and see a pilgrim. I begin to explain my situation in English and then in broken Spanish, but he's French and speaks little English. Then suddenly his face lights up and says "ah, credit card!" and digs into his travel pouch and brings out my card. I'm so relieved that I'm thanking him in every language I know and offer to buy him a 'cafe au lait' which he gracefully accepts. We then sit together with our coffees and attempt to communicate in what little we know of each others languages, with help from a French woman who speaks a bit of English.
I guess my days of being an English Francophobe are over. Vive la France!
The Camino provided yet again! There are so many good souls everywhere! Glad you bumped into him!what a fantastic ending to your story!
Can you share the details of how you were robbed please?Since I was robbed on the train from the airport in Barcelona on the way home from my second camino in 2007, I have sewn an inner pocket into all my trousers. There I keep some euros, an extra creditcard, identification, health information and personal contacts.
Hope you get your your card back, Feetzgerald!
When I was to leave the train at Saints, going from the airport in Barcelona, somebody pressed me from behind and stopped me in front. I got a bit irritated because I wanted to get off the train. When I got off I noticed that my wallet was gone, and I told it to an English woman who sat next to me. She told me she had seen somebody trying to stop me and that they did not leave the train. I went into the train again and cried out about being robbed. I saw the people that robbed me but they refused to give me back my things. Went off at the next station and took the train back to Saints where I went to policeoffice. i was not alone. Several people was in front of me in the queue. I was without my passport, without money, luckily with another creditcard than the ones being robbed.Can you share the details of how you were robbed please?