Yes patchy details Chris .lets hope it's just an asolated incident

Odd isn't it Lyn.

I'm embarassed to say that in all my visits I have never made it to Old Market, even though i have stayed up there, so i cant quite visualise it. Seems strange that they dont know if it was a 'drive by shooting' which sounds a bit unlikely and like something out of an American cop show or some sort of repercussion from something else that had happened, but if the later why target a tourist? Perhaps they do know but are not letting on?

I'm sure they dont have the openness of police processes & dogmatic press that we have, where everything that happens is gone over in minute detail to scare us half to death & make us feel like we live in war zone even though we aren't. Very strange ?

Have you booked your hotel ? I seem to be coming up with good prices on travel republic at the moment, but am a worry wart so frightened to book with them.