Day 37 Rest day at Ayacucho

Well another rest day, but one with a twist!!  Ayacucho is quite a nice town and we were all enjoying a sunny day off.  I was not going to clean my bike with 3 days of un-paved ahead, just give my chain some lubrication.  Good job I was going to do only that as I discovered a large thorn in my rear tyre, so that required attention too.  Otherwise I did not do much else but update my blog etc.
Now the twist, if you have not already seen my son´s comment on day 36.  A man booked into our hotel in the morning and happened to be in the room opposite me and my 2 room mates.  He tried twice to enter our room during the day by just walking in, and apologising each time as if he had made a mistake and come into the wrong room.  Each time one of my room mates was in, and on one occasion Peter was on his laptop.  Maybe he also saw me in reception on my laptop.  The evening arrives and we all gathered  to go for a meal as usual.  About 45 minutes later Wilbert, of Bike Dreams, comes and finds Peter and I to give us the bad news.  Leaving half our dinner un-touched we retrurned to the hotel and found the door of our room jemmied open and the room in a mess!  We both lost our laptops and cameras, and I also lost my backup disc and Ipod as well as other bits and pieces. So apart from my pictures on Picasa website I have lost them all.  Luckily there are loads of other peoples that we can take copies of but there are some I know are not replacable.  We spent the rest of the night with the police, who looked in his room and found a lot of crumpled up newspapers!  Seems he booked in with a bag of newspapers and left with our goodies insttead!!!!
I will endevour to keep my blog going as I know there are a lot of you looking in, but be patient as we are soon going to be at fewer hotels and either bushcamping or at official campsites.  I plan to get another camera in one of the bigger cities as I feel lost not being able to take pictures, but will make do with internet cafes and my friends laptops, when they are not using them, to update my blog.
I am sure you can imagine my reaction to all this but more about that when I catch up on the following days reports.  I am now more calm and and still setting the whole trip as my major target, there are less than 8000K to go!  Keep in touch please!