Day 19 - Day in Coimbra

Today was an interesting day, and most of it was good.
I didn’t get a chance to tour a lot of the city, but I did get to rest my foot a bit.
The picture of the huge Cathedral called “The Old Cathedral”(because apparently there’s a new one), was right outside my door. I was literally standing on my front step and took the pictures. Amazing; incredibly beautiful! And of course, the inside was gorgeous. After viewing it I caught an Uber to the Decathlon store. It’s a sporting/hiking type store and I wanted to get a new backpack. Mine was both too small and too heavy. I was lucky enough to find a very lightweight one and
a lot bigger than mine so I bought it and was happy. I emptied out my old backpack and they bought it from me because it was in such good shape. I promptly got another Uber and headed back to my hotel area.
I walked around a little bit and had supper and went back to my hotel. About 7:45 in the evening I was organizing and rearranging my things when I noticed my jewellery was missing!It’s not that I brought much at all for jewelry, but there were a few gold items and silver, plus one of my Apple AirPods, and a pocket knife that my father-in-law gave me many years ago. So mainly sentimental value. Then all of a sudden it hit me… I had them all in a secret compartment of my old backpack. So secret that I didn’t even notice it when I checked every pocket three times. Oh my goodness! So I panicked and caught an Uber back to Decathlon. Luckily it was open till 10 o’clock!!! I was leaving the next morning.
I got there and the girl that I had dealt with, of course, was gone for the day and the two fellas at customer service had no idea what I was talking about. Finally, they looked in the back and low and behold, came out with it. I practically shrieked. I opened that secret compartment and there it all was. Whew!! What a relief!. And then I went on to beat myself up for being so stupid.
I loved Coimbra, the little I got to see. I would like to go back one day.Read more