12/13 January 2017
Home! After a 5am start in Surrey, flight to Athens, cross-town bus, cross-Greece bus, and trip home in the car from the bus station, we arrived back at 10.30ish. The house was surprisingly cold, so we fired up the stove, but couldn't warm up, so we went to bed. The next day, upon opening the curtains in the music room I found out why - we had been broken into, and the window was open. As we keep the music room locked, we also found the kitchen window broken, and both music room and kitchen doors were unlocked.
This was the first time we'd left the house all locked up - with wood in the door frames and glass in the windows - no polythene or sailcloth anywhere - and that's when we get a break-in. Luckily, we are so skint after three wedding trips to the UK in six months that the only cash in the house was an emergency five euros - which had gone, as well as a small pair of speakers for the computer. Otherwise, all our worldly belongings were spurned by the thief. Major relief for Dave, whose guitar is his only really precious possession. Luckily they must only have been after liquid assets.
Home! After a 5am start in Surrey, flight to Athens, cross-town bus, cross-Greece bus, and trip home in the car from the bus station, we arrived back at 10.30ish. The house was surprisingly cold, so we fired up the stove, but couldn't warm up, so we went to bed. The next day, upon opening the curtains in the music room I found out why - we had been broken into, and the window was open. As we keep the music room locked, we also found the kitchen window broken, and both music room and kitchen doors were unlocked.
This was the first time we'd left the house all locked up - with wood in the door frames and glass in the windows - no polythene or sailcloth anywhere - and that's when we get a break-in. Luckily, we are so skint after three wedding trips to the UK in six months that the only cash in the house was an emergency five euros - which had gone, as well as a small pair of speakers for the computer. Otherwise, all our worldly belongings were spurned by the thief. Major relief for Dave, whose guitar is his only really precious possession. Luckily they must only have been after liquid assets.
Crowbar marks on the window, which had broken catches
and muddy footprints in the kitchen
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