Successful Claim

It's good news after almost two months of wait from Columbus Direct. Apparently, the cheque is on the way.

One good travel advice would be this: Just bring cash and another object of identity with you when you're traveling. The rest, lock it. Or the best, leave it in your home country.

My Braun Buffel wallet which I loved was stolen. Together with my Identification certificate, Driving license, Student pass, both my Diving cards, a cheap phone and minimal cash.

For that, I embarked on a Swedish police car. If not for the two policemen, both so funny, calm and professional, I'd really had gone nuts. They reminded me to ask for the essentials this when one of them passed me his hand phone to call home. Then after awhile, he suggested going to the police station. It's more comfortable and they can generate a report. He was 'eating' Tobacco (something equivalent to Tobacco, but different kind of administration) inside the room. Before they drove me back to Interhostel, they asked me to rate the Swedish police. I rated one category short of perfect, if not due to the fact there was a filming crew filming on my mishap. Both were nice and I'm grateful of the help and the fact that we can communicate with a common language- English.

But lucky for me, my friend was scheduled to fly over on the very next day. I met her in Oslo, and we traveled.

420SGD worth of claim. I didn't expect to be compensated. But one tip would be to indicate the claims you want under the specific sections and email to them. Less work for the insurance people, and you'll have already explain what exactly you need.

Phew...