Thieves like to get rid of bags fast. A 20-something male walking or cycling with a nice lady’s handbag draws attention. In Barceloneta it seems the thieves have a handy drop-off point where bags can be deposited for assessment or later collection. (Barceloneta, the district, constantly features here on ”Robbed in Barcelona”.) Our contributor picks...
The AP7, the motorway than runs around Barcelona, taking traffic from France down towards the south eastern corner of Spain. It has developed a reputation over the years as being dangerous for foreign-registered vehicles. Let’s take a sorry tale posted by a mobilehome driver and user of the UK website “Out and About Live“:...
Enrique Figueredo penned an article in a recent La Vanguardia, which told a torrid tale… A street battle between youths of Dominican origin and the local police, in the environs of Barcelona’s Pou de la Figuera and Mercat de Santa Caterina. Since the article above was written, a noticeable peace has descended in the district –...
Gold chain thievery is in vogue in Barcelona. Over the past two weeks we have been sent a number of first person accounts about gold chains being plucked from necks, and bracelets from wrists. We hear about bag snatching, pickpocketing, robbery on the beach and robbery on the metro system, but face-to-face chain snatching hasn’t come...
Guestpost by Kristina I work in tourism in Barcelona. A fun & rewarding job most times since I get to recommend places to visitors, share my insider tips and watch them go out and come back happy and surprised by how great this city is. The worst part of my job, however, is that every...
We tell many Barcelona robbery stories on this site, but there’s one in particular that we are constantly asked about… it’s the case of the Polish contortionist on the bus between Girona Airport and Barcelona city centre. We first wrote about it back in June 2011. (You might want to read about it first,...
There’s money in them there mobiles: For manufacturers, for network providers, for content providers, and for the thieves who snatch the handsets and sell them on. Today’s cellphones, unlike the bricks of old, are typically worth a lot on the black market – moreso the types of phones carried by Mobile World Congress delegates...
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