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Shit spelling. Sorry. Can´t afford to correct it. Need to get to the passport website and report as stolen ASAP.
 
Stanley Edwards said:
A lot to be said for using a 5 year old Samsung mobile also. Worthless shit to any smack head. Invaluable to me. Plenty of friend I can call for help if needed. I won´t need them. Off to the station to sketch until I have the cash to get home and start all over again.
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I've got a fairly crappy - but working - old netbook you're welcome to have.
 
MUST NOT GET DRUNK AND STONED IN BARCELONA.
MUST NOT GET DRUNK AND STONED IN BARCELONA.
MUST NOT GET DRUNK AND STONED IN BARCELONA.
MUST NOT GET DRUNK AND STONED IN BARCELONA.
MUST NOT GET DRUNK AND STONED IN BARCELONA.
MUST NOT GET DRUNK AND STONED IN BARCELONA.

I knew this. Fucking idiot.

I have made €60. Just need another Tenner cash wise, but I have a problem. Can't get train ticket without ID and the fuckers didn't just take my passport, they took all photocopies and all my passport style photographs.

I have emailed the embassy and got a really nice auto reply all about stolen/lost passports for children. Most helpful.

There is not much to sketch here. Barcelona Sants station isn't quite an architectural marvel, but it is all I have to work with. Never know, it might become a modern masterpiece :D Fuck it. I'm going to do my best to enjoy it anyway and call police if the ticket peeps don't let me buy a ticket. I will be in Granada tomorrow AM regardless.

From the heights of love to feeling like a vulnerable, no rights, non passport holder in just a few pints at a real ale bar. Real ale bar in Barcelona! It is improving slowly.

Internet cafes and locutorios. Now I remember :(

Won't take long Stan. Keep your chin up!

Thank you people. Sometimes Urban75 saves me. Like really saves me.
 
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Stanley Edwards said:
Yeah, got it. Thanks. I just need to go to Polcia Local when I get back to Granada and get temporary ID, then get the €300, or so together to get to Madrid and get the real thing.

Hey ho. I choose to live this way. I should be more careful.
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It's only 5 months since the last time you were robbed of everything, I really feel for you :(
 
€3 fucking short of night train to Granada!

So, I'm taking the night bus to Madrid. Stoyen, Juan need need need! Help me brothers.

Why I hate Barcelona has very little to do with getting robbed. It is why I hate Barcelona really (and, surprisingly some people you wouldn't expect are on my side).

I hate to say it, because the person I love most lives here. I couldn't live here - I really do hate it. It is actually the new Fascist state of Europe (capital F - I am serious). It really is. Sorry if that spoils holiday plans for anyone.

Madrid bound. Long route home, but I can't stomach this fascist shit anymore. It is monocultutral fucking shit. Shit. Really is fucking monocultural fucking shit. How they get away with it in Europe 2014 is beyond me.

Fucking shit hole of a city.

Catalan fascist cunts.
 
So I went to Barcelona and didn't get anything nicked and didn't see anyone get anything nicked.

Didn't seen anymore dodgy than London to me.

Only robbery was when I went to one bar and had some chicken croquettes and a beer and got charged €16.

Great place.

I stayed at Mare Nostrum just off Las Ramblas. Gorgeous place. Small, but really nicely kitted out.
 
Me76 said:
So I went to Barcelona and didn't get anything nicked and didn't see anyone get anything nicked.

Didn't seen anymore dodgy than London to me.

Only robbery was when I went to one bar and had some chicken croquettes and a beer and got charged €16.

Great place.

I stayed at Mare Nostrum just off Las Ramblas. Gorgeous place. Small, but really nicely kitted out.
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Glad u had a good time - really - just a bit P**d off with the city after being robbed twice ! - and not stoned or pissed either ....!!
 
Off to Barcelona tomorrow. Will arrive Thursday as we're going by train. I've lost count of how many times I've been but this will be the second time we've gone by train and the first time I've travelled both ways by train. Night trains are my favourite transport :cool:
I've been checking out vintage shops for this trip.
 
davesgcr said:
Just watch your pockets and bags ......everywhere - especially on public transport ...
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Oddly enough, it felt really different this time. I've been at most times of year but never in January or February. I don't know if that makes a difference but I didn't see any of the usual dodgy types. It was fairly quiet though and they need crowds to get away with most of what they do.
The Raval district is really coming on. Lots of new good places to eat and a couple of interesting french bars since I was last there.
 
My wife and her friend had ipads and kindles swiped yesterday on the train leaving Barcelona for the airport , diversion caused by closing doors on a child getting on which clearly was contrived , bags dipped .

Lesson learnt , be careful out there
 
hammerntongues said:
My wife and her friend had ipads and kindles swiped yesterday on the train leaving Barcelona for the airport , diversion caused by closing doors on a child getting on which clearly was contrived , bags dipped .

Lesson learnt , be careful out there
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Swiping is an art in barcelona.

My mum and dad were telling me about foreign cars getting flagged down on the road and then robbed in and around barcelona...... and I was like "yeah right"

Until they gave me a lift back to barcelona, and someone on the motorway threw a stone at their car and then tried to flag us down. Wankers.
 
sorry but it's a bit stupid to have your bags open on a tourist train in a major city!
 
sim667 said:
Swiping is an art in barcelona.

My mum and dad were telling me about foreign cars getting flagged down on the road and then robbed in and around barcelona...... and I was like "yeah right"

Until they gave me a lift back to barcelona, and someone on the motorway threw a stone at their car and then tried to flag us down. Wankers.
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A friend of mine and her husband got done by that motorway trick last year.
 
cesare said:
A friend of mine and her husband got done by that motorway trick last year.
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Its horrible...... you just have to carry on driving and ignore it. If you get out and leave the keys in the car, they'll just nick the car and your insurance won't pay out either.

My folks have never fallen for it luckily, but they've had their car tyres slashed in a car park, and had their stuff stolen whilst someone supposedly helps them sort it out.

They've got a spanish plate left hand drive car now, so it doesn't happen any more :)
 
sim667 said:
Its horrible...... you just have to carry on driving and ignore it. If you get out and leave the keys in the car, they'll just nick the car and your insurance won't pay out either.
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Apparently this is a known scam, advice is to not pull over if you're flagged down no matter how urgent the flagging looks. Hard to ignore though eh.
 
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