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Robbed in Barcelona Discussed in The Telegraph

November 16, 2011
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The Telegraph’s travel experts Annie Bennett and Sally Davies discussed travel in Spain in a November 16th live webchat on the UK newspaper’s site. A question came in from someone by the name of Jen who had seen the “Robbed in Barcelona” site and wanted to ask Sally about it. We were pleased that Sally...

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Our Site Statistics: 37,646 Pages Viewed since start of October

October 16, 2011
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It’s been a while since we gave you a batch of site stats for Robbed in Barcelona. It’s been a busy few weeks, since the start of October, so here’s what’s been happening. Busiest day of the month – and our busiest day ever – was October 14th, we had 1,590 unique visitors. That’s...

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Live Blog: Spanish Media Reaction to “Robbed in Barcelona” Coverage in The Times

October 14, 2011
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This post will be updated as coverage continues, it’s a developing story. Here’s our earlier post on The Times article. E-Noticies Title: The Times tacha Barcelona de “paraíso para ladrones”URL: http://comunicacion.e-noticies.es Snippet: “También se explican iniciativas como la página hecha por expatriados ingleses robbedinbarcelona.com, en la que denuncian públicamente la fuerte incidencia que tiene la criminalidad en...

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Robbed in Barcelona Feature in The Times

October 14, 2011
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Robbed in Barcelona spokesperson Rob Daly was recently interviewed by The Times correspondent for Spain, Graham Keeley and this resulted in an article published on Thursday October 6th 2011 entitled “Hitting Back At Barcelona Bagsnatchers.” There was also an accompanying piece by Times journalist Jane Knight entitled “Heaven for tourists and thieves“. As the Times is...

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We Love Barcelona. Let’s Make It Better!

September 6, 2011
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We at “Robbed In Barcelona” tell many negative stories about crime in Barcelona, we see many incidents of pickpocketing and bag-snatching, and we hear many more. However, we share these stories not to hurt Barcelona or its people. We maintain this blog, Facebook and Twitter and write stories not because we are on a...

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“Robbed In Barcelona” Is The News Today

August 30, 2011
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A screenshot of the “Robbed In Barcelona” blog has appeared on the homepage of the mass-circulation “El Periódico de Catalunya” newspaper today. The newspaper enjoys a circulation of approximately 168,000 per day. Have a look at the article in question here. The interest centres around a guide which was written to advise locals and...

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RiBCN Profiled by Barcelona International Network

May 20, 2011
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Nice article on the Barcelona International Network site today with a wedge of exposure for Robbed in Barcelona. Some interesting stats from embassies appear in the article that we hadn’t seen before, such as the number of Japanese and New Zealand citizens robbed in Barcelona. We’ll ask the author more about these as it’s...

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