The Devil Comes to Holy Toledo

The train system in Spain is awesome as it is easy to navigate (even in another language), the trains are clean and run on time.  Our 30 minute train ride to Toledo was uneventful and we got off the train, got in a taxi, checked into our lovely historic apartment and immediately headed out to do some sightseeing, have dinner and get some groceries for breakfast.  We returned about 9:30 pm and Rita started unpacking and realized her passport wallet was missing.  It had our UK and German passports, three of Rita's credit cards and $120.00 Cdn in cash in the wallet.  We went through everything and it was nowhere to be found.  The only thing we could think of was she was targeted when we disembarked the train as this was the only time we were in a large crush of people.  We could not do anything until the next morning but cancel the credit cards.  It was not a good sleep. The next morning we went to report the missing wallet at the lost and found of the taxi and train companies in the small chance it was turned in.  As you can imagine this was very difficult as people do not have a good grasp of English here and we have no comprehension of Spanish.  I did a google translation of "we have lost our passports, could you report it to your lost and found" for the taxi driver and the staff at the train station.  This worked and they recorded the loss, but we were lucky to find an English speaking person at the tourist info center at the train station and she told us we had to report the loss and called the police.  She gave us the contact and address details and we took a taxi to the police station where they have a special tourist division to help foreigners who have been victimized.  The officer we spoke to spoke very good English and we filled out the theft report that would allow us to get new passports from our Embassy's.  Fortunately, we have our Canadian passports which we left behind with Rita's parents, so we will have them couriered out to one of our hotels before we depart from Spain.  We will wait until we get back to Canada to obtain our new UK and German passports.  Not the best way to start our time in Holy Toledo.