Vincenzo Corleone
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DW and I just got back from a wonderful vacation in France. We spent time in Provence, Dordogne and Paris. The food and wine were surprisingly comparable in price to our HCOL area back here at home, probably even a bit less expensive. We ate well. And the views were fantastic.
Sadly, due to our carelessness, a bit of money was stolen from us. In all, we stayed at about six different hotels/b&bs along our route with each one supplying a safe in our room in which to store our valuables. One day in Paris, with the safe containing cash, credit cards, passports, house keys, and electronic equipment (e.g., GoPro), we forgot to lock it on our way out. Having noticed our mistake when we returned to our room towards the end of the day, we noticed only the cash was missing. Credit cards, passports and everything else were left.
Expensive lesson. DW and I were upset about it, but today I stopped kicking myself and allowed myself to just let it go, and DW seems to be more Zen about it. However, considering that the safe contained credit cards and our passports, I'm now considering the possibility of even worse problems (e.g., identity theft).
What possible problems might we encounter considering the access the thief had to our credit cards (with the account numbers on them, of course), passports, and other things in the safe?
We didn't tip the housekeeping staff at the end of our stay
Sadly, due to our carelessness, a bit of money was stolen from us. In all, we stayed at about six different hotels/b&bs along our route with each one supplying a safe in our room in which to store our valuables. One day in Paris, with the safe containing cash, credit cards, passports, house keys, and electronic equipment (e.g., GoPro), we forgot to lock it on our way out. Having noticed our mistake when we returned to our room towards the end of the day, we noticed only the cash was missing. Credit cards, passports and everything else were left.
Expensive lesson. DW and I were upset about it, but today I stopped kicking myself and allowed myself to just let it go, and DW seems to be more Zen about it. However, considering that the safe contained credit cards and our passports, I'm now considering the possibility of even worse problems (e.g., identity theft).
What possible problems might we encounter considering the access the thief had to our credit cards (with the account numbers on them, of course), passports, and other things in the safe?
We didn't tip the housekeeping staff at the end of our stay