By Joan Josep Lladregòtic, Airbnb landlord All out of breath from the hike up the stairs with his few extra kilos, Rafa gasps that he has been robbed. He has lost passports, cash, traveler’s checks, a laptop, insulin kit, assisted breathing machine, cameras and his cell phone. His traveling companion is waiting at the...
That vital thoroughfare through the heart of Barcelona, Via Laietana is the scene of this next scam, first reported yesterday by Tara Cuesta on our Facebook group. It requires a taxi, which you jump into at the taxi rank at the junction with Plaça Catedral, you place your bag on the back seat beside...
The 200,000+ circulation daily newspaper La Vanguardia has gotten into robbery mapping with a Google maps implementation that allows the newspaper’s online users to pinpoint locations where they have seen robberies taking place in Barcelona. The resource has yet to prove widely popular as there are still less than fifty incidents identified. The feature was...
Here’s a selection of photos from Barcelona we found on the popular Flickr site covering various aspects of pickpocketing in our city. Photo #1 by Joel and Trish Chong from Australia, taken on July 11th, 2009 and viewed 19 times. They commented: “Pickpockets - Trish was expecting the pickpockets to look a lot less civilian and...
In a recent blog post on April 19th, we posed a single question to the five candidates for the position of mayor of Barcelona. The election takes place on May 21st 2011. We contacted each of the candidates by both Twitter and email. We were pleased to receive a response from four of the...
Following our recent distribution of Japanese posters warning about pickpockets, we’re thrilled to follow-up with a trio of posters in the Chinese language, which have been created especially for us. They are to print and post in locations in Barcelona where you feel tourists are in danger of being pickpocketed. If you own a...
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