My name is Alice Hagger-Vaughan and I attended one of your courses in January just before leaving to Peru. After 3 months of problem free travel through Bolivia, Chile and Peru, I found myself in a Taxi scam in Lima. After gettting into a Taxi that we had thought was totally legitimate, we were driven to a secluded area of Lima. The car was then surrounded by 5 men who dragged the four of us who were in the car out onto the street. The taxi drove of imediately with my friend´s bag and we we were left with the men. One friend was punched to the floor and everyone was handled pretty roughly. I luckily had made sure I had nothing but a bit of money on me and I handed this to the man that had grabbed me immediately, I then shouted for everyone to run and after a few minutes of running we found a main road and risked another taxi, who took us home safely.  I just wanted to say thank you, because although it was a traumatic experience I had little on me, I handed whatever I had over immediately, and even had some money hidden elsewhere. I escaped the situation as quickly and as calmly as possible and I don´t think I would have been that calm had I not attended the course. The course is definitely worthwhile and I can reccomend it to everyone that is going travelling. Thanks for all of your help.

April 2010