Amy's Travels

Forgot to mention that people tried scam us yesterday. We caught them because of Rick Steves. We basically win.

To expand upon last night's entry, in the back of all Rick Steves books he has this thing called a "grafiti wall" where people post helpful hints. He has a list of common scams, too.

Wednesday, we were walking around Paris and this lady picks something up in front of us and gives us a confused look. We realize at the exact same moment it's a ring and we also realize simultaneously that this is the "ring scam." Neither one of us remembers the exact details a ring scam entails, but we know it somehow ends up with us either paying for the ring or getting pickpocketed while we're distracted. So we sped on by. A few minutes later, a man tries the same thing. Then, when we were at Sacre Coeur, there men were standing on the steps with beads that they'd slip around tourists' arms and then charge them for when they came back down the steps. One man was coming up to me and Brittany goes, "AMY, WATCH OUT" and I was so startled and the man was to confused that we slipped away easily.