Advice about stopping in Aires near Spanish border

Jays
Jays Forum Participant Posts: 1
edited June 2016 in Overseas Campsites & Touring #1

In April we stopped for the night at an Aires near Genoa.  I mentioned to my husband that I was not comfortable being there because I had read of people being robbed but he assured me it would be ok.  In the morning when we awoke I expressed to my husband that was the best sleep I had ever had and even the dog was still sleeping.  My husband got up to make a cuppa before we moved on and said where are my jeans.  I said, please don't tell me that the best sleep I had was because we had been robbed.  Obviously it was.  The police reckoned we had been gassed and they had managed to use something to open the front doors, which were locked by central locking. According to the police British motorhomes are easy to get into. My jeans were hanging out the door and hubby's had disappeared along with his wallet.  He found his jeans down the road along with some other poor souls jeans who was unaware that he too had been robbed.  Needless to say coming back we just stayed on sites.  The police, who were not really interested say this kind of crime start around Easter and last lasts throughout the summer.  Please be careful folks.

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  • KeithandMargaret
    KeithandMargaret Forum Participant Posts: 660
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    edited June 2016 #2

    And it's taken over two months to relay this news?

  • Camdoon
    Camdoon Forum Participant Posts: 37
    edited June 2016 #3

    Genoa is not near the Spanish border.

  • JudenSteve
    JudenSteve Forum Participant Posts: 169
    edited June 2016 #4

    Perhaps they mean Gerona ! Anyway with campsites readily available for less then €20 why would you stop at an Aire ?? Some people invite aggro !

  • peedee
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    edited July 2016 #5

    My advice is don't. The Aire Catalonia or is it Village CatAlan is notorious for problems. Today looked like the big Spanish get away with all roads out of Barcelona very busy. Think I may have been the target of an intended robbery on an Aire just north of Barcelona. When I pulled in the first thing I did was check my bike rack before starting lunch. During lunch I observed a Guarda patrol car drive past all the parked vehicles so when some individual starting trying to tell me there was something wrong with my "cofiguration" we just didn't believe him and ignored him and promptly drove off. Be carefully out there

    Peedee 

  • Landyrover
    Landyrover Forum Participant Posts: 143
    edited July 2016 #6

    If you have to stop at an Aire on a Spanish motorway do it on a pay section of motorway unless you are well away from the Mediterranean coast. This is especially true when you are bypassing the major cities on the coast where the motorways become free. 

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