Rome Advice

I recently returned from a trip to Rome where I found out first hand how bad theft is. I had only been in Rome for 20 mins before I fell prey to the thieves at the airport so I wanted to warn anyone who is looking at travelling there. I had done a lot of research into the most commonly used tactics but this was a new one. I was walking to the bus station when I was approached by someone saying I had bird poo on my backpack. When I took my backpack off to check and sure enough there was white goo running down the bag. While I attempted to wipe this off another person came round from the other side and swiped my day bag. They where obviously working together and had deliberately whipped something on my bag to look like it was a bird. After speaking to other people at my hostel I found I was not the only person this had happened to and want to warn as many people as I can … MJB

March 24, 2010 at 7:50 am | Europe, Uncategorized | No comment