Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2007/10/24

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Subject: [Leica] Re: Hoppy does Barcelona - street crime
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Wed Oct 24 09:55:56 2007
References: <BAY135-F3544CF72F340DF3E518FC4D9940@phx.gbl>

On Oct 24, 2007, at 8:12 AM, Geoff Hopkinson wrote:

> Felix, the thread seems to have distorted, which I suppose does  
> tend to happen. For our visit of several days we had absolutely no  
> problems either . Nor did we ever feel remotely threatened anywhere  
> we went. I'm pleased to hear another voice suggesting that  
> Barcelona needs only sensible precautions like everywhere. I can  
> think of several countries where I would not be comfortable at all,  
> of course. Also, to give a little perspective, having your bag or  
> wallet stolen must be horrible, getting assaulted or threatened  
> with weapons would be far worse. No muggers with guns or knives in  
> Barcelona that I heard of. No-one proposing to murder you to  
> finance a drug purchase or kidnap you for ransom or a political  
> statement either, as far as I know.


the next installement of Hoppy's "travel diary" will hop to crime in  
Australia...


:-)


Steve




>
> Cheers
> Hoppy
>
>
>> From: F?elix L?opez de Maturana<felixmaturana@telefonica.net>
>> Reply-To: Leica Users Group <lug@leica-users.org>
>> To: lug@leica-users.org
>> Subject: [Leica] Re: Hoppy does Barcelona - street crime
>> Date: Wed, 24 Oct 2007 14:25:26 +0200
>>
>>
>>> I rate Barcelona on a par with Tijuana, Naples and New Orleans.   
>>> And some parts of Rio.
>>>
>>> Jerry
>> How many times have you, Jeery, been in Barcelona? I believe  
>> street crime is far behind New York or any of the towns you  
>> mentioned where excepting Tijuana I've visited. I travel to  
>> Barcelona several times every year for the last forty years and  
>> *never* had an incident. I've seen once an incident so the average  
>> is rather good.
>>
>> Regards.
>>
>> Felix
>>
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In reply to: Message from hoppyman at msn.com (Geoff Hopkinson) ([Leica] Re: Hoppy does Barcelona - street crime)