It's a shame that this phantastic avenue with beautiful buildings, facades and trees has become a street of drog dealers, prostitutes, pickpockets.
I spent a couple of days in a hotel on La Rambla, was regularly insulted by dealers and prostitutes. One time i was tried to been robbed but i ocercomed the attack. Wandered down the Las Ramblas to the water front, extremly high tourist area regardless of the driving attach, Armed polizia with machine guns everywhere on intersections.
Just want to make people aware that Prostitutes are approaching drunk Prostotution around the La Rambla area at night and indecently touching people and then stealing phones and wallets! I had 3 of my friends lose phones the weekend and lucky spotting one of them doing it!
It was only when we all got back to the hotel we realised what had happened. Or just simply don't be drunk. You don't know how much drunken guiris are hated in Barcelona.
Petty thieves from any national and racial background target drunks. Nobody knows why. Interesting that the 'advice' here is to leave your phone. There seem to be other learning opportunities available. But he admits that the last three years have not been good. The visit was subsequently cancelled as the result of bad weather, but the promise made to the 10, inhabitants of the Kuril Islands of an upcoming visit by the head of state set alarm bells ringing in Japan, who warned that such a visit would be undesirable and would threaten bilateral relations.
