However my brand-new camera got stolen yesterday while I was having drinks with Ivan and his father-in-law.

It was “fished” right out of the pocket of my coat that was hanging over my chair. The thief actually “did” both my pockets as the map in my other pocket also was gone. Pure opportunism.

One of the staff of Lisboa, the bar where it happened, told us that petty crime like this sees a sharp rise in Valencia during the Fallas.

As Mia put it: “po cai mian zai”, an old Chinese saying that means something like when you lose fortune, you avoid disaster.

Because I bought tickets for our first bullfight for tomorrow, I will have to buy a new camera today