Ok, so finally had some spare time since we got home.
Scam 1 - Bellinzona Switzerland. young couple approached me in the main street and asked me if i knew where they could by a sandwich. i pointed up the street where we had been having lunch. then they did the whole, it's too expensive thing with their hands. i just played dumb, and said no they were fairly reasonable prices in the food court and walked away.
Scam 2. Villiers Brett Petrol Station France.
left my husband alone for 5 mins (big mistake), came out and he's talking to someone........husband explains to me that this irish man had is wallet stolen in Paris, and he and his brother didn't have enough money to drive to Calais to get home. he had a Irish drivers licence (see link for the same name) was well dressed. my husband had already handed over 180Euro (idiot) and told me the story, and said to him my wife has the rest of the money. dude said he would transfer the money tomorrow, and would ring us for our bank details. (hahaha)
i said to idiot husband if he's irish why is he talking in a french accent. all of a sudden the dude change to an irish accent and started the whole sob story again.
told idiot husband it was a scam, and told the dude to f&*^ off and go and scam someone else. the dude left politely, after trying one more time to beg at my heart strings. said no impolitely again. told idiot husband to get in the car and drive before we got robbed.
of course he never rang......................... husband didn't get much more cash out of me after that!
Irish Confidence Tricksters Arrested in France
Scam 3. ( i actually loved this one)
attempting to get on a train carriage in Milan with heavy suitcases behind a group of teenagers, an older man checked out tickets and said come with me. got our suitcases on the other end of the carriage, bashed past everyone else in the carriage and took us to our seats after getting the suitcases thru all the teenagers. did a great job. then wanted cash of course. was very happy to give him 5 euros. he did a splendid job.