Major setback

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I wish I could tell you that we make great progress but unfortunately that isn't the case at all.
Nadia was supposed to fly out real early Monday morning so we drove the 2.5 hours in our campervan Sunday evening. Staying over at a parking and sleeping in our van she could make her early flight without us spending half the night travelling.

We got up on time but not because my phone alarm went off. In fact I didn't even have a phone anymore. Or a wallet.
Someone had come in our van by unlocking the driver's side door and had gone through our van taking the most precious items. We hadn't noted a thing. The intruder took my phone, wallet with drivers license, car registration and bank cards, Nadia's passports, jewellery, both our watches, some clothes and other belongings.
With all my passwords in iCloud and only fingerprint access to iCloud you can image what misery unfolded. No more access to anything online other than email. And with my bank cards stolen no access to any funds.

We reported the burglary at the nearest police station and at this moment we are trying to get our life back on the rails. We've been to Paris to the Dutch and Australian embassies for Nadia's passports and in a week I'll have to drive up to Holland for a new Drivers license and to replace my bank cards.

The monetary value of this burglary was a few thousand Euro but the downtime and costs involved in reinstating everything are huge.

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