I am so sorry, I lived in Barcelona for a decade and though the city is lovely there is a pick pocketing problem. I suffer also a robbery in Barcelona, just traveling back from USA, tired, we picked all our luggage at the airport, cash, passports, computer, soundcard, cameras.... we had everything with us as we came from a tour. I was grabbed to the metro station and my partner had to give away everything (including keys to get into our house) I became a bit paranoid after it :( though we were both unharmed. It was around 10k stolen goods and part was working gear I could not afford to replace. It's in the past now but glad you are ok, and don't overthink, it happens! :( sadly!
You are viewing a single comment's thread from:
@yidneth Yikes! That is a whole lot of stolen goods! :(
Why didn't you pay for a taxi or something? As bad as I will sound by saying this, the metro / subway tends to attract a lot of bad elements...
I was not at the metro, I took the bus from the airport to the center and intended to get a cab from there, I was kicked off the bus as someone grabbed my case and I held to it, once out he pulled me to the metro, broad daylight. By the time my partner got off and went to assist me my safety was already compromised :(
yeah ive been really paranoid since then, it was awful what happened to you :(( omg!! yeah its just really such a big problem there!!
Sigh yes, we had come so tired from abroad, they target foreign looking cos they know you will not stay in the country if they get caught and go to court, few things can be done by police really, sad, hope you could enjoy some of your holiday at least.