Robert, Beth, Debo, IB and Gloria...enjoying champagne (supplied by Robert)
Earplugs are needed if you want to sleep through the Chacabuco traffic !!We would have posted this earlier but wanted to get everything sorted out and to tell our folks on the phone so they did not worry......(Sorry Mum and Dad Blue that you had to hear it from Al as you are on holiday). Last Tuesday when we were out for lunch in Mendoza and some bugger stole our backpack. We had been to the travel agent to look into flight to Bariloche at the Lake District and in our backpack was our flight tickets, passports, IB MP3 player, driver licence, sunglasses, but no cash.... all gone. We only took our eye off it for 10 seconds and it was gone from under our table. The owner phoned the police and they were there within minutes, one on a bike who tried to find it and 3 in a police car. As like us they knew that it was gone, they offered to take us to the police station to file a report. We approached the police car and there were 2 officers in the front and one big massive one in the back. Once IB was in there was no room for me, but this officer decided there was enough room and manoeuvred my butt in and slammed the door. I did feel slightly violated, but since they all had big guns, decided to keep my mouth shut. At the station when the door was opened we almost fell out. We filed our report, which took 2 hours and is very important, not only for insurance purposes, but for us getting out of Argentina as we do not have an entry stamp on our new passports. We get our new passports in a few days and after many hours arguing with American Airlines, they have issued us new tickets. We think it helped that we had been out the night before with friends and were stinking of booze and looked dog rough after 5 hours sleep. They were meant to charge us $200, but felt sorry for us and give it to us for free. So that is going towards our Spanish lessons. We will claim all the costs back on our insurance and are both okay, so don't worry. Today we are off to school, for 4 hours of Spanish lessons with a playtime at 12. Happy Days....Chao Chicos.x
3 comments:
damn those banditos basseros. what about your passports kids. Are you stranded? grr.
That aint so good kids. Hopefully you'll get your passaportas soon and soon return to the happy days
We get our new passports either today or on Monday. The photos are shocking. We look like 2 banditos as we were both so tired. So not stranded...yippeeeee. Both fine and dandy and wont let it spoil our trip..xx
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