A message from a friend got me thinking about just how much has been lost, destroyed or otherwise damaged so far this trip. Not much better to do on a stuffy 3 hour bus ride to Prague (yeah, changed my mind), so here goes:
• 20 euros - dropped from my pocket in bordeux, where I'd stupidly kept money next to my much-used city map
• ~7 euros in coins - went flying from my pocket sprinting from the Vienna eurocup fanzone in the rain
• GPS USB cable - lost, details unknown
• sandeman corkscrew - my sole personal souveneir, confiscated by airport security in Munich
• souveneir coffee mugs from Seville - left in Seville hostel
• bottle of cheap French wine - left in a Paris hostel
• sunglasses from Dublin - left in a different Paris hostel
• sunglasses from Lacanau - left on a bus in Rome
• sunglasses from Rome - fell apart a few days later on cinque terra
• electric razor - brought from US, destroyed in santorini by improper voltage
• electric razor bought in Rome - thrown in trash after two barely successful uses during which it made jackhammer-like rattling noises (mental note - everything bought in Rome was junk)
• towel - left in Bordeaux hostel
• towel - destroyed in Plus Florence hostel. while drying on the balcony some welders a couple stories up managed to light it on fire
• pair of shorts - left in Dublin hostel
• pair of shorts - flew from balcony in Athens hostel
• pair of socks - worn threadbare, tossed in trash
• peanut butter and two boxes of cereal - left in second Florence hostel (later ran into a girl from the hostel in Munich, where she mentioned she'd "ate peanut butter I think some American left")
• 3-4 bottles of shampoo, left in various hostel showers
• arm - possibly fractured, the result of trying to demonstrate a roundhouse kick in flip-flops in Seville at 5 in the morning. it still has a bump and sore spot 5 weeks later
• 2 Eurail timetables - destroyed riding around in my daypack
• Canon XTi camera + lens + memory card - stolen off Cherbourg to Paris train
• Casio z1080 camera - destroyed in the Wombat's bar in Vienna, exact cause of death unknown
• passport - intact but quite warped after being soaked in sweat in cinque terra and water in vienna
• headphones - earbud cracked apart in munich, but mostly repaired using a bandaid as tape
