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Subject: [Leica] Hoppy does Barcelona - first 2 pics
From: kididdoc at cox.net (Steve Barbour)
Date: Thu Oct 25 11:25:29 2007
References: <C3469B98.11567%lug@steveunsworth.co.uk>

On Oct 25, 2007, at 11:14 AM, Steve Unsworth wrote:

> Thanks Luis, it's always good to have a perspective from someone  
> who lives
> in the actual place.
>
> There was once a thread on an internet forum - can't remember if it  
> was here
> or not - who described Paris in terms I could hardly recognise. It  
> was so
> dangerous that he advocated carrying a tripod to use when fending off
> 'gypsies'. As someone who was living there at the time I found this  
> quite
> amusing.


I totally agree Steve...

I've lived in Paris, sometimes for long periods, with never a problem...

I do believe that people who travel loaded with preconceptions and  
insecurity, will of course see danger everywhere...


Steve






> Maybe I'm generalising incorrectly, but it does seem to be the North
> Americans who have the greatest expectation of being robbed when they
> venture away from home.
>
> Steve
>
>
> On 24/10/07 22:38, "Luis Ripoll" <luisripoll@telefonica.net> wrote:
>
>> I want add a general comment, I never had the minimum security  
>> problem on
>> Barcelona, neither other cities on Spain and on the world. My  
>> office is
>> beside the Ramblas, every day I go there, and after many, many  
>> years I
>> frequent Las ramblas, Markets, Flea Market in Barcelona and I've  
>> never had a
>> problem, neither see it, maybe I'm fortunate..., I take care also  
>> of myself.
>
>
>
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