Delegates, welcome to this wonderful city. Watch your pockets! Barcelona is an incredible city and a perfect choice for conferences. It has just one flaw, an epidemic of pickpocketing mainly focused on tourists and visitors to the city. By following a few simple guidelines you can greatly reduce the possibility of a nasty incident...
Longtime “Robbed in Barcelona” collaborator Summer Fingersmith provides us with a story (*.pdf) written before most of you were born–March 2005–from El Periódico, entitled “I rob a bicycle every day.” The article highlights that back in the day two out of every five cyclists in Barcelona had had their bicycle stolen at least once. Further, for...
An initiative by “Platform Raval per Viure” has seen Barcelona’s new mayor Xavier Trias receive hundreds of identical Christmas cards. The cards display a “letters soup”, a puzzle containing various words – 12 in total – such as “Robatoris” (Robbery), “Prostitucio” (Prostitution), “Drogues” (Drugs) and “Sorroll” (Noise). They group says the words describe what...
Guest post exclusively for Robbed in Barcelona by Frank W. I was looking forward to moving to Barcelona. As a freelance translator, I’ve moved around a lot and lived for much of the past ten years in Central and South America (in cities whose reputation is more dangerous than Barcelona). I think of myself...
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