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An expensive drink in Venice

around all day and we reached the Piazza San Marco and we decided to take a drink now I knew it was going to be expensive because I'm from London and I live in Paris so I know w...

Course: Travel, culture and local lifeSection: Rip-offs, scams and con artistsSubtitles: en

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we'd been walking

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around all day and we reached the Piazza

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San Marco and we decided to take a drink

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now I knew it was going to be expensive

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because I'm from London and I live in

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Paris so I know what expensive means

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however when we got the bill it was a

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shock it was 18 euros for one beer 18

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euros for one Campari 36 euros in total

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plus a cot and obligatory for Euro tips

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at 40 euros quite a shock so we thought

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we were really ripped off so careful if

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you're in Venice now generally speaking

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a ripoff is not illegal

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it just means paying much too much for

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something however the next word scam is

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illegal we use this word to talk about

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people illegally trying to get your

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money it's a verb to scam and a noun a

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scam and person that it is a scammer so

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there

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