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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I've traveled a bit.  The trick is just to not make yourself an easy target.  Cross body bags with zip tops, keep stuffed zipped inside inner pockets.  Keep bags in front or on the side and in crowded situations rest a hand on the top of your bag as well.  Never leave your bag on a chair next to you or changing off the back of a chair.

The reality of pickpockets is they don't generally want to get into a confrontation, so make yourself someone who's not easy to take from without getting noticed.  Now someone who's willing to get violent, you may just want to give them money to go away.  But that's extremely rare.  There's no reason to carry large sums of cash in Europe so don't do that.  [/quote]

Where do you put your bag then? If not on a chair beside you and not over the arm of you chair? If it’s in your lap and it’s a decent size, the napkin won’t go over it and you have to reach around it to eat [/quote]

Either carry a smaller bag or attach it to the chair eg pacsafe bags and cross body purses’s straps can be removed to slip around chair back or legs and reattached. [/quote]

I loop it around my foot and chair leg put it on the floor. I don’t bring my best bags on vacation!

I also do carry my passport with me unless we are in a country where we have friends/family and can leave it at their house. I hear stories of things disappearing from safes and think it’s better for me to have that on me if stopped etc. [/quote]

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