25 november

the next morning (my birthday) I found between all the messages from friends and banks a mail from the garanti bank that somebody had tried to use my bank card 3 times yesterday evening, but with no succes because the pin was wrong.

I had not realised I took this card with me so I called the given garanti bank number in istanbul and blokked this card also. (the police was estonish that they were able to track these not-done transactions also and I was happy they were so fast in reporting it to me. I still havent heared anything from my dutch banks...

in their mail was also the name of the bank and the terminal used so we descided to go to the police office again later this day to report this, maybe there was a camera watching this bank terminal, but first I started calling with the dutch ambassy.

I was more than 1,5 hours on the phone and they connected me with den haag, madrid and back, but I was not able to learn what we had to do for coskuns lost visum (in his lost turkish passport). only some stupid statement that we maybe had to make an appointment with the ambassy of luxemburg in madrid that looked after schengen area visa.....  and they made an appointment for me for the next day at 14:30 in madrid to make en application for renewal of my passport or a temporary one. this passport would be coming a few days later! and for an ID card? the same!

then we went to the turkish consolate in barcelona without an appointment and after a little over an hour I had a new turkish ID card and coskun had a new temporary passport (1 month ). my ID card is not temporary and costs me 3€, the temporary passport of coskun was free.

then we walked arround as originally planned, around the gloria street, the ramblas, eating tapas and the famous market there and again off to the police station.

there it toke rather long again, talking with a swiss man that had been punched and robbed... and more people like us. it is not a little problem, no really everybody we met had been robbed one or more times !

then we went back to our appartment and internet to find a place to repair or get a new continental winter tire. I tried phoning the place, but like many other people here, no english, so we had to go there. we took our flat tire and a cab and went to the address, we managed to understand each other and he would orther a new tire and we made an appointment for 27-11 10h for the "montar".

we walked back through old barcelona streets and took some nice looking food and paella from a take away and had diner in our appartment.