Trekkie Travels

not such good news

A guy I’d known for a few months and who I’d just started seeing stole the camera my kids bought me for Christmas to go to Peru and buggered off to Lima with it. He also took my old mp3 player which I’d given to Carlos.
I was absolutely devastated because the camera was a gift from my kids and to me it meant that when I came here the first time and I always had the feeling I wouldn’t come back, that they accepted it. I feel like I’ve let them kids down, I was always so very careful with that camera, it rarely left the house and when it did it never left my side.

He took it while I was in the shower and actually came in a taxi with me when I went to Garabatos to meet the guys while he must have had it on him - he worked there, it was his night off and so he wasn’t allowed in.
I found out a few days later when I packing to go to Abancay for Antonio’s birthday. Antonio called a police intelligence friend and he took me to the tourist police and made them take it seriously (I'm told they don’t usually bother to do much). I had a photo to give them and it’s been circulated to all police stations and checkpoints in Peru. They are looking for him in Lima and he will never work in Cusco again, in fact he’d be stupid to even visit Cusco again because natural justice rules here and several people are now looking for him.



The good news is that it made me realise even more what great friends I have. Me and the boys had had a fight the night before (all sorted now) but it was all put aside and they were brilliant, both in practical ways and just holding me while I cried – and I cried buckets! After I made the statement to the police we went to Abancay, later than planned and I spent a few days there with Antonio, his girlfriend Martina and his family and that made me feel a whole lot better. His mum has adopted me as her little sister and his brother and his family treated me as family, their kids were calling me Tia Janice within half a day. It was so relaxing, the place is amazingly beautiful and there wasn’t a tourist in sight. We went for family picnics, spent Antonio’s birthday night drinking, dancing, singing and listening to Antonio’s brother Marco playing the guitar and his wife Empe taught me some local dances.

if any of you guys in Lima see him, photo is on the link below, please let me know. I know it won't get the camera back but he can't be allowed to get away with it.