Father Putas, accompanied by students with tree limbs in their hands, crossed the river in boats to pick up the prostitutes and bring them back to the city. Presently, the Salmantinos unite in groups and go out to the countryside to have a bite to eat. There are also festivities and music in the streets at dusk. Many of our students have been robbed of their wallets or purses. Here is some advice so that, hopefully, this will not happen to you.
Foreign tourists are easy to spot by their language, clothes, guidebooks, maps and cameras.
Pickpockets or thieves assume that tourists carry lots of cash and are sufficiently preoccupied with their unfamiliar surroundings to be easy pickings. A lady's handbag with a zipper or clasp is no problem for a pickpocket if it is dangling carelessly out of the owner's sight or lying on the floor in a restaurant or shop. Likewise a man's outside or back pocket makes the pickpockets' work easy. In general, all the pickpocket wants is your money. The tourist who loses passport, identification, tickets, cash, credit cards and travelers checks in one lick is in real trouble.