A warning for Alicante Marina
My husband and I were walking around Alicante Marina yesterday afternoon around 4pm when we thought we’d been treated to seagull poo! However it was two well dressed middle aged Spanish speaking people who appeared to be a couple who had sprayed us with something that appeared to be bird poo. They were so kind and helpful giving us water and tissues to remove it and helping us wipe it off our backs and hair. The woman even asked where we were from. After they had gone I realised they had taken all the cash from my purse( in my backpack) and on the coach back to our apartment my husband realised they had taken all the cash from his wallet, which was in the FRONT pocket of his jeans. It will take some time to get over this and having looked on Google this is a known ‘thing’ happening also on Costa del Sol, known as ‘Bird poo pick-pocketing’ and they are targeting senior citizens.
I wanted to make people aware and hope this doesn’t happen to you. We didn’t have time to go to the Police Station as we had to get our coach. However we did go into our local Police station to inform them.