Wow, how weird is this? My "stolen" wallet turned up in Turin, Italy with EVERYTHING in it!

[CTyankee]

I thought for sure my purse had been pickpocketed in a store on Via Garibaldi, a famed shopping district. There was no way it could have just fallen out. So I reported it to the Polizia, filled out a report. Luckily, my Tour Director who accompanied me gave them his cell phone number.

The call came 8 days later, when we were on our way to Venice. The wallet with all credit cards, my passport and both the Euros and Americand dollars I had in it had been turned in to the Turin police dept. and they had forwarded it to the U.S. Consulate office in Milan.

Of course, I had cancelled all of my credit cards. Since I had trip insurance I received a cash advance by courier and a replacement Visa card in 2 days time delivered to my hotel. So the rest of my trip was saved.

I had already been to the consulate office to get an emergency passport and would have gone back on the train to pick up the wallet but I didn't know about it until the evening before we left. I've emailed to consulate office asking them to send it to me at home in CT.

While I am still mystified as to how this could have happened, I am grateful to get the wallet back as it has my drivers license and my medical insurance card as well in it.

I just hope I'm not stopped by a cop before I get the license. I can just see how the officer would look at me if I said "I'm sorry, officer, my drivers license is on its way from the U.S. Consulate in Milan, Italy..."

[Tuesday Afternoon]

1. day-um

almost restores my faith in humanity :wow:

[CTyankee]

2. I know. I felt bad that I immediately concluded I had been robbed.

I was kicking myself for being so "sure" it was a safe city that I didn't wear my wallet by its cord around my neck and across my chest, as I did when I visited Sicily and other parts of Italy in years past.

Still can't figure out how a large travel wallet could just fall out of a bag that was tall and thin...