Well folks it is tonight, what a difference a week makes, this time last week I was watching the Barcelona marathon just a few strides from the Place De La Catalunya and staying in a flea pit of a hostel just off the Ramblas, had me bag with me towel and swimmers in it stolen, I nodded off in the cafe and when the misses went to the loo some one had half inched it from the seat next to me. It is easy to get the impression the whole population of Barca are theives , 40% of the population under 25 are out of work and there is a prevailing mood that the spanish have been shafted by the world so foreigners are fair game. the cafe was half full and no one saw it go, seems like it has become a honoured profession and that if you lose your bag it is your fault for not chaining it to yourself . The police have flooded the Ramblas, probably due to the amount of bag snatching that was going on, according to a brit living locally, people had wised up and were making snatching more difficult and so the snatching got violent. Anyway all they got was a rucksack with two towels some suntan lotion and a couple of bits of underware (we were wearing our cosies) and my jumper, Suppose it could have been worse. If you happen to be in Barca and see some one wearing a wicked fish jumper, white, the original style, and he looks shifty turn him in to the cops are give him a whack on the nose, it was my favourite jumper.