I really feel sorry for you. Hope you find your ipod touch soon.

I'm very cautious about my personal belongings when I travel to Italy since I also experienced couple of unhappy incidences.

Taxi drivers in Italy are very tricky. One time I took a taxi from the Termini train station to IC Rome after I got off Leonardo Express, when the taxi reached IC Rome, the meter came out around Euro 30. After I paid the taxi driver a Euro 50 bill, he changed it immediately to a Euro 10 bill when I switched my eyesight to somewhere else, and then he told me that he had only Euro 10 from me. I argued with him because I was very sure I had only two 50 Euro bills and four 100 Euro bills and nothing else (I exchanged it before the trip from my bank with total 500 Euro). Eventually I had to give him extra 20 Euro to settle the meter fare. I also doubted if something was wrong with the meter since I found the journey from the Termini station to IC Rome too expensive (no traffic jam). Lesson learned... every time when I give my bill to the Italian, I raise my voice loudly how much money I am giving and ask him/her to count the bill before I switched my eyesight to somewhere else.

It is shame that Italy is a country of many years of civilization with so many beautiful, impressive ancient architectures, but I really feel that the people there are all thief, and are the most aggressive and rudest European. Unless for business, Italy is no longer on my traveling list. (Sorry if I offend any Italian here, just my own true personal feeling, nothing else)