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This was the warning I received when I announced my upcoming trip to friends and clients. "There are roving bands of Muslims", said one. "You won't even recognize London", said another. Then there are the news reports of the swarms of refugee rapists. Well, I just returned from my trip to Rome, San Marino, Venice, Monaco, Paris and London and I'm happy to report that all of the warnings are absolute BULLPUCKY. I walked ALL OVER these cities during my visit and I didn't see a single example of the supposed horrors that I was warned about, and I LOOKED for them. So, ignore the fear mongers and go ahead and book that vacation. You'll have a wonderful time. Just watch out for those obnoxious American tourists.
You're being held against your will and forced to type this, right? Nice try, Europeans!
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Roma (Gypsies) have always been a problem for tourists. That's not a popular thing to say. I hate saying it now. My mother lost her passport when surrounded by a group of Roma children in France back in the 1990s. But it's not the same issue as what the OP is talking about, that people are claiming "Europe is Dangerous!" Parts of the USA are scary as hell. I can't walk around in my own neighborhood at night. And that's not due to roving immigrants.
They're in many of the smaller train stations too. I was just in the Cinque Terre, Pisa, and Livorno in June and saw them.
When they approach you, just look at them in the eye and say " Basta!! " and then move on with your business. They get the mesaage.
....you can’t possibly be pretending American’s have the moral high ground here.
Oh wait; Alternate Realities, Alternate Morality.
Hopefully this post was PC enough for you.......
I don't pretend.
I find it hypocritical that someone would go to Europe, visit, come back and try and convince us that Europe is wonderful, that none of the stories reported about their crime rate are true, yet their complaints about our President are based on the reports attacking Trump they have heard from their socialist media which they take at their word.
I agree with the OP at a certian level, in that some Americans have "travel fear", and allow it to keep them from seeing some of the places in Europe. But as a well traveled person myself, I have also seen the flip side of that and have had numerous personal accounts of people that are clueless, and find themselves in bad situations overseas, they could have avoided because they are so oblivous to their surroundings. The years I lived in South Africa were the worst, as far as the second situation was.
Nice attempt to whitewash gypsy crime. I also lived in Italy for several years, and traveled throughout western Europe from Italy. Gypsies do not just "beg you to death", they have a laundry list of cons and theft tactics that leave you broke and without travel documents. I have had my car tires cut and windows broken when I didnt pay the gypsy clown his extortion fee to "watch my car" when I parked it in downtown Catania. My wife had our infant daughter snatched out of her stroller, and held over a steep precipice she was standing next to by a gypsy woman, (who was cooing Bella Bambina!) while the woman's gypsy kids rifled the stroller taking phone, purse and camera while my wife was so distracted. My family was all cleverly pickpocketed of passports and money by gypsies in Barcelona while distracted at a train station, killing their vacation. My daughter had her purse stolen off the resturant table in Tbilisi we were eating at, by a gypsy kid that looked to be about 8 years old (they learn that crap early...) The list goes on. Most people do not find these events "just part of the experience", but expensive and often dangerous events.
Driving in Italy has nothing to do with migrants, this is true. Italians are often proud of the anarchy on the roads there for some odd reason (I still have an old "Driving in Italy" t-shirt I bought in Naples).
But western Europe in general is paying the price for their extremely short sighted approach to large scale immigration from areas that have vastly different cultures. A video from just last week in the UK, taken in one of the "no go" zones (that supposedly do not exist).
Not an area a clueless American tourist would want to go be-bopping around for sure......
Not whitewashing anything. I don’t need to. The Roma have been in Europe since time immemorial. It’s THEIR home, not yours. You’re just a visitor.
I know all about the Roma and their shenanigans, but of Europeans can live with it and accept it as s part of life, who the hell am I to complain about it? All societies will have people that live on the margins. Big deal.
Americans sure as hell shouldn’t be pointing fingers.
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