German tourist's bag returned after Facebook post goes viral




Polish national Ewelina Moszczynska found the handbag next to her bungalow on Phi Phi Island on Thursday morning. Photo: Kongleaphy Keam

PHUKET: A German tourist lucked out this week after a Facebook post by a fellow traveller helped reunite her with her lost bag.

Polish national Ewelina Moszczynska, 31, found the handbag next to her bungalow on Phi Phi Island on Thursday morning.

“It was the morning after a party that I found the bag next to my bungalow,” Ms Moszczynska told the Phuket Gazette.

“I didn’t open it at the time, but when no one came to claim it a few hours later, I opened it and realized there was some pretty expensive stuff in it.”

Ms Moszczynska said that she was unable to find any identification inside, but did find a camera with pictures of a girl that she had coincidentally met on Maya Bay on Tuesday, and then again at a tattoo shop the following day.

Full story: http://www.phuketgazette.net/phuket-news/German-tourists-bag-returned-Facebook-post-goes/62843?desktopversion

-- Phuket Gazette 2016-01-09

Let us never anymore underestimate the power of the internet...!

Let us never anymore underestimate the power of the internet...!

And thus the need for a single, monitored gateway.

Nice story for once

Was confused by the 'lucked out' in the OP as I would have taken this to mean bad luck rather than the good luck indicated by reading the article.

Seems that UK and US continue to be 'two nations divided by a common language'

http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=LUCKED+OUT

....part of a story at best....

...lost or stolen...dunno...