On May 31, 11:21*pm, "Storrmmee" > wrote:
> i was just listening to a radio show, Howard Clark, maybe... he made the
> comment that of the three most popular places to visit, london, Paris, and
> Rome, that pickpocketting was most often occuring in Rome. *I have no reason
> to doubt he was quoting a reliable source, but it struck me as odd So if you
> know could you confirm or deny please,

Of Euro cities I've been to, from accounts of people we met,
pickpocketing was the worst in Madrid. Rome's gypsies were mostly
extremely bad musicians trying to demand payment for torturing our
ears.