WE WUZ ROBBED

Well, today we left the campsite and went to the supermarket before we went on the drive of death. Whilst shopping, after about 30mins, an assistant came along and grabbed our trolly and beckoned us to go with her. When we got to the front door there were some security guards there who told us Blossom had been broken into. We got back to find that the van, which was parked in the middle of the car park in broad daylight, had been ransacked.  We were devastated. 2 computers, 1 phone, 2 GHD hairstarightners, Nintendo DS, TV, Media player, Kindle, sat nav, jewellery,  hard driv, 3 iPODS etc etc. all gone. The supermarket guards had caught it on cctv . The police told us that they had followed the car with the thieves in it, 2 Hungarians, and the theives had crashed the car whilst being chased but the police had managed to recover all our stuff from the car. We had to follow the police to the station and we spent the next 4 hours making a list of what we thought was missing and then verifying the items they had recovered were actually ours. We waited for an interpreter for at least an hour, because she had to get to Pompei from Naples, and her English was as good as our Italian. We gave a statement which the Police man lost on the computer and we had to go through it all again and then signed it, but we don’t actually know what it says because it was never read back to us but we have a copy.  Finally we got our stuff back, think it is all there, and had to still go back to the supermarket for some shopping but this time because we didn’t know the way we got a police escort, didn’t make any difference to the Italian drivers as they even cut up the police cars.

Thankfully there is minimal damage, the door into the van can’t be opened from the outside so we will have to watch we don’t lock ourselves out. They had twisted the bracket for the TV to get it off the wall so that needs a bit of attention and one of the wall cupboards handles has been broken.

We have now stripped the bed, as they had been climbing all over it, put everything back into the cupboards and had some food as the last time we ate was 11 hours ago. Oh yes we are also having some beer and wine!!

Drive of death tomorrow.

TTFN