We were then to have the pleasure of driving our French car back home at the end of January, again via Orléans, and all bookings had been made for this and returning by air. In early January Frogbus announced a change of timetable – the bus booked for our separate journeys to Gerona was no longer running. Although there was an earlier bus available, this added 3¼ hours to the length of time Morag would have to wait at Gerona airport.
Unfortunately, two days before the scheduled departure date Morag discovered that her passport and driving licence were missing. These are always kept in her pink travel wallet, and were last seen (well, the passport anyway) when checking in at Calais on 4th January. The wallet had been unopened since then so the only assumption to be made was that the documents had been stolen during the crossing. Two days is not long enough to get a replacement passport, so all the travel arrangements had to be changed. We had already checked in online for the Ryanair return flights, so the cost of these just had to be written off. Fortunately we were able to change the ferry (£10 extra), hotel and bus bookings.
The flights we were to have taken, and for which we had already checked in, were:
- Morag, Gerona to Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden (£5.42)
- Morag, Karlsruhe/Baden-Baden to Stansted (£9.03)
- Mike, Gerona to Venice/Treviso (£9.03)
- Mike, Venice/Treviso to Stansted (£18.96)
So, including the £10 ferry date amendment, replacement passport (£129.50) and driving licence (£20) a total loss of £201.94. Thanks, thieves! Fortunately there does not appear – yet! – to have been any attempt to steal Morag’s ID using the stolen documents.
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