How to Avoid Pickpockets

On 28/07/10 18:27, Erilar wrote:
wrote:
On 27/07/10 14:57, Erilar wrote:
wrote:
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Don't underestimate her determination to rubbish all things French.
Oh, thay have some nice historical sites here and there.

and some of the best food, drink and castles in Europe.

Boycotting France is your loss.

Not in my opinion. I prefer the thousands of German and Austrian
castles, food, and wine and much friendlier people, danke 8-)

I prefer both Germany and France.

On 28/07/10 21:14, Magda wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:31:07 -0400, in rec.travel.europe, Dave Smith
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:

... Erilar wrote:
...
... Don't underestimate her determination to rubbish all things French.
... Oh, thay have some nice historical sites here and there.
... and some of the best food, drink and castles in Europe.
...
... Boycotting France is your loss.
...
... Not in my opinion. I prefer the thousands of German and Austrian
... castles, food, and wine and much friendlier people, danke 8-)
...
...
... From my experiences travelling in Europe, I found the warmest most
... hospitable treatment was in Garmish-Patertenkircken. We also had good
... experiences in other parts of Germany, but found people in other parts
... of the country to be a little cool. For the most part, treatment in
... France was excellent. I have been there three times and on one
... occasional we had a snotty waiter. The rest were great. The food was
... great and the scenery wonderful. It was Italy where I found the people
... in hotels and restaurants a little hard to take.

Don't try Greece in summer, then.

There is no similarity.

On 28/07/10 21:44, Magda wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 21:30:42 +0200, in rec.travel.europe,
arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:

... On 28/07/10 21:14, Magda wrote:
... On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 14:31:07 -0400, in rec.travel.europe, Dave Smith
... arranged some electrons, so they looked like this:
...
... ... Erilar wrote:
... ...
... ... Don't underestimate her determination to rubbish all things French.
... ... Oh, thay have some nice historical sites here and there.
... ... and some of the best food, drink and castles in Europe.
... ...
... ... Boycotting France is your loss.
... ...
... ... Not in my opinion. I prefer the thousands of German and Austrian
... ... castles, food, and wine and much friendlier people, danke 8-)
... ...
... ...
... ... From my experiences travelling in Europe, I found the warmest most
... ... hospitable treatment was in Garmish-Patertenkircken. We also had good
... ... experiences in other parts of Germany, but found people in other parts
... ... of the country to be a little cool. For the most part, treatment in
... ... France was excellent. I have been there three times and on one
... ... occasional we had a snotty waiter. The rest were great. The food was
... ... great and the scenery wonderful. It was Italy where I found the people
... ... in hotels and restaurants a little hard to take.
...
... Don't try Greece in summer, then.
...
... There is no similarity.

None that you can see.

None that I know of.

Dave Smith wrote:
Erilar wrote:

Don't underestimate her determination to rubbish all things
French.
Oh, thay have some nice historical sites here and there.
and some of the best food, drink and castles in Europe.

Boycotting France is your loss.
Not in my opinion. I prefer the thousands of German and Austrian
castles, food, and wine and much friendlier people, danke 8-)

From my experiences travelling in Europe, I found the warmest most
hospitable treatment was in Garmish-Patertenkircken. We also had good
experiences in other parts of Germany, but found people in other parts
of the country to be a little cool. For the most part, treatment in
France was excellent. I have been there three times and on one
occasional we had a snotty waiter. The rest were great. The food was
great and the scenery wonderful. It was Italy where I found the people
in hotels and restaurants a little hard to take.
Well, everyone knows by now that my experiences in France were different
than yours 8-). My only experience in Italy outside the airport in Rome
was Sicily,
Where I was generally favorably impressed. They kept offering me pasta
I didn't care for, but I was also offered so much other food that I
didn't suffer 8-) I also had some wonderful calamari more than once.
--
Erilar, biblioholic medievalist

On 7/24/2010 3:28 PM, Mike Lane wrote:
wrote on Jul 24, 2010:

On Jul 24, 11:42 am, wrote:
I had been stupid enough to betray my wallet's location while on
the Metro. Bad move.
For guys, there are two or three high-probability locations. They
will try those places first if they see a lump. They may try even if
there are no obvious bulges.

A couple friends had their bags slashed while they were watching a
tourist spectacle (a changing of the guard ceremony). They were not
aware of being victimized until much later.

I'm always amazed at these tales that are told whenever the dreaded P...
word comes up. I've travelled quite a lot in Africa and Europe during the
last 50 years or so, and I can say hand on heart, that I have never, ever,
not even once in all those years had my pocket picked.


Hi,

I've had an attempted "dip" into my daybag in amsterdam (safety pin
through pulls made it 'jerk' when he tried and we ended up chasing him a
few blocks)... this WAS several years ago when the RLD was full of
junkies.... and I was robbed at knifepoint in the Gare du Nord in Paris
a decade plus ago in the baggage area... my mistake of cashing travelers
checks THEN going to check my bags... but this was pre-euro... I had to
get FFs... the Gare has also been cleaned up a good bit now.

--
Hackamore
http://www.hackamoretravel.com

On 7/25/2010 3:55 AM, Martin wrote:
On 25/07/10 02:11, wrote:
On Jul 24, 2:24 pm, "James
wrote:
An amusing fantasy but why don't you just pack some heat?
That's a good idea! I used to worry about getting them toys past
airport security, but (not surprisingly), the TSA has not confiscated
any of it.

Recently, while travelling with some friends on the Athens subway, one
of them lost a wallet. I admit that I was disappointed that they did
not get my fake wallet, instead.

Is there some scope for a skilled pickpocket in the USA?

there are actually very few pickpockets in the US.

we have MUGGERS.

On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:27:52 +0000 (UTC), Erilar wrote in post :

:

"Tim C." wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:45:52 +0000 (UTC), Erilar wrote in post :



Germany, on the
other hand, is the home of more delicious kinds of bread than any
place
I've ever been.

None of which make a decent sandwich.

Almost all of which make fantastic sandwiches, unlike boring white
paste.

They make great open spreads if you eat cold meats and wurst etc. Let's
face that's what they are eaten with. Anything else and they are often too
heavy or have too much of a flavour of their own which limits what you can
make out of them. Caraway, anise and coriander seed don't really go with
jam or nutella for example.

--
Tim C.
Our ice cream man was found lying on the floor of his van covered with
hundreds and thousands.
Police say that he topped himself.

Tim wrote on Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:25:58 +0200:

"Tim C." wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:45:52 +0000 (UTC), Erilar wrote in post :
news:1744045066301854630.953981drache-chibardun.netinvalid@
news.eternal-september.org

Germany, on the
other hand, is the home of more delicious kinds of bread
than any place I've ever been.

None of which make a decent sandwich.

Almost all of which make fantastic sandwiches, unlike boring
white paste.

They make great open spreads if you eat cold meats and wurst
etc. Let's face that's what they are eaten with. Anything else
and they are often too heavy or have too much of a flavour of
their own which limits what you can make out of them. Caraway,
anise and coriander seed don't really go with jam or nutella
for example.

American rye bread with caraway seeds (the seedless variety is for the
birds) is great with jam and many other things, like toasted for Reuben
sandwiches.

--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland

Email, with obvious alterations: not.jim.silverton.at.verizon.not

"James Silverton" wrote in message
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Tim wrote on Thu, 29 Jul 2010 16:25:58 +0200:

"Tim C." wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:45:52 +0000 (UTC), Erilar wrote in post :
news:1744045066301854630.953981drache-chibardun.netinvalid@
news.eternal-september.org

Germany, on the
other hand, is the home of more delicious kinds of bread
than any place I've ever been.

None of which make a decent sandwich.

Almost all of which make fantastic sandwiches, unlike boring
white paste.

They make great open spreads if you eat cold meats and wurst
etc. Let's face that's what they are eaten with. Anything else
and they are often too heavy or have too much of a flavour of
their own which limits what you can make out of them. Caraway,
anise and coriander seed don't really go with jam or nutella
for example.

American rye bread with caraway seeds (the seedless variety is for the
birds) is great with jam and many other things, like toasted for Reuben
sandwiches.

--

James Silverton
Potomac, Maryland


Agreed! I have also made grilled cheese sandwiches with both American rye
and Jewish rye, both with caraway seeds. BLTs are yummy on seeded rye bread,
too. I never buy Russian rye as it is dark, has no caraway seeds and is for
the birds as you say!.

--Jean

On 29/07/10 16:25, Tim C. wrote:
On Wed, 28 Jul 2010 16:27:52 +0000 (UTC), Erilar wrote in post :

:

"Tim wrote:
On Mon, 26 Jul 2010 16:45:52 +0000 (UTC), Erilar wrote in post :



Germany, on the
other hand, is the home of more delicious kinds of bread than any
place
I've ever been.

None of which make a decent sandwich.

Almost all of which make fantastic sandwiches, unlike boring white
paste.

They make great open spreads if you eat cold meats and wurst etc. Let's
face that's what they are eaten with. Anything else and they are often too
heavy or have too much of a flavour of their own which limits what you can
make out of them. Caraway, anise and coriander seed don't really go with
jam or nutella for example.

German sour dough bread goes well with Black Forest smoked ham and
pickled gherkins