Our “Tell The Mayor” feature has proven popular, to the shame of everyone associated with this website. Some 41 submissions have come through the site between January 18th and June 30th 2012. (There have been 10 since then, so far.) We have submitted these testimonies to the Mayor’s office and we will now contact...
It gives us some pleasure to be mentioned in a book. It means we’ve reached a certain level in popular culture that says we get thought of, considered, rated. It’s a good feeling. It doesn’t quite surpass the feeling of those daydreams that have us placing a pickpocket’s head between the closing doors of...
May 1st a mobile phone and a cut knee. May 4th a mobile phone snatched in Parc de la Ciutadella. May 5th a bag and camera whipped in Placa Catalunya. Our Facebook group – I know someone who got robbed in Barcelona – continues to act as a repository and gathering point for the...
An article by Julie Sheridan has featured on The Spain Scoop, which was partly-inspired by some of the content on Robbed in Barcelona. Julie’s article (which can be seen here) is a good one-page overview of all that a visitor needs to be aware of when coming to Barcelona. The Robbed in Barcelona site...
So, how much informing, revealing and embarrassing did we do in 2011? (Our aims are listed here.) Robbed in Barcelona has been on Facebook since March 10th 2010, but only since April 7th 2011 have we published on this site. Since then – less than nine months – we’ve had 34,638 unique visitors to this...
We’re pleased – thanks to YouTube – to be able to offer you the facility to send us videos anonymously. Add this email address to the phone contacts of your smartphone, and if you capture something of interest, email it to us, anonymously. Your contact details will not appear, and we won’t see those...
Scammed on holiday? Would you like to be a part of a new travel show? We’re looking for participants to tell their story on camera. This is the message UK television production company Zig Zag Productions has asked us to communicate to our readers. Describing our site as “a fantastic resource”, the team planning the...
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