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My husband, and several others noticed the cameras...the on,y ones we saw the entire trip...maybe someone was watching where u put your money? The others who got robbed also had money in their bag and one young girl u dee her pillow... Lesson? Wear it!Re: Sorry to repot our theft...
Sorry to hear of your loss. It looks like the popularity of the Camino has brought new problems.
There have always been a few stories but they seem to me to be on the increase.
How many people were in the room with you? Double bunks?
I I am very surprised that someone could move from bunk to bunk and unzip sleeping bags without waking someone else in the room.
How do you think they knew the money was in your sleeping bag? I don't think they would just open the bottom of bags and feel around if they did not know something was there..
Portomarin was never my favourite place. Stayed there the first time I walked the camino and decided then never to stay there again.
Personally I find it a sterile state build town ( after the government flooded the former older town), lacking in character and atmosphere.
A relic of a bygone era.
....However, and I am sorry jirit, but I must put in a word for Portomarin, and its people. I enjoyed my visit to this town. My companions and I stayed in a modern, clean, family-run private albergue. There were several pictures in the hallway of our albergue of the former town before it was flooded, and I was pleased that the hospitalera had the time to talk to me about the pictures. It is sad to think of the old town being flooded, and everyone uprooted and moved up the hill. It’s nobody’s fault that the town had to be rebuilt – actually, I think the powers that be did a pretty good job.
Sorry, but I just don’t think it's fair for you to knock the town.
piogaw , this one ? http://www.caminodesantiago.me/comm...olen-in-private-albergue-in-portamarin.20582/i am trying to link and move this post to the one i posted on the camino frances forum, but to no avail. for all interested in the connection to the one i posted on camino frances forum, please go to the topic dated the 19th of september.
i just want to show the thievery has been happening before. maybe it is more extensive as many peregrinos chose not to report it maybe due to powerless to do anything, embarassment, or just not to bother as they moved ahead on the camino.
I hear you, jirit. I have my dark shades on too sometimes.I kinda expected I would ruffle some feathers when I made that comment about Portomarin.
Oh well - what is that expression? "beauty is in the eye of the beholder"
Must have had my dark shades on while I was there.
yes steven, this is the one. this was reported to me at the end of their camino in santiago at my albergue. the young polish lady lost 200 euros. this is a first hand account of the theft from the horse's mouth. she was with her fiance when her money was stolen.
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