View from Convento de Cristo once a Templar stronghold

Monday, January 14, 2013

My German friend B did not have a good week last week.  As though having their home broken into over the holidays wasn't enough, she was almost pick-pocketed in the city on Friday.  She had gone in to have coffee with her husband and was walking along the sidewalk when she felt something tug slightly at her back.  She swung around quickly to find a teenaged boy standing right behind her and her backpack unzipped.  She started yelling at him in German and he answered with an eastern European accent.  Most crime in Italy is now committed by people who came from the east since the "wall" went down.   The kid didn't get anything but the experience unnerved her.  Our lines of defense are down here at our place as everyone leaves the outer gate open and the door to our stairwell is broken and won't lock!  Good thing we have our bank vault of a front door.  I don't know as crime has gotten any worse because of the economy, or if I just hear more about it as I'm socializing more with foreigners and people who tend to be targets.  When we lived here before, the problem was heavy drugs and addicts on the streets.  They are mostly gone, (dead?), but now there are so many thugs and lowlifes from Romania and Albania and all those "anias".  I think those countries emptied their prisons and sent the occupants all over the borders into western Europe to wreak havoc.  Argh.  xxoo me

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