ISIS in Europe -holidays
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Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
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- Northumberland
I would expect that the bombers' objective was to cause ongoing disruption and panic- they've achieved that result with little risk to themselves so hopefully that'll be the end of the attacks... hardly reassurring at all. Giving in to the mind games and not going would be more unsettling. The sooner everyone gets on with life the better, you probably have a better chance of being struck by lightning or winning the Euro-lottery.
srw
It's a bit more complicated than that...
Out of the hundreds of millions of Europeans who've been on holiday around the Med over the last 10 years or so, precisely 38 have been killed on the beach by ISIS, and not a lot more have been killed by other flavours of violent individual. More will be killed every day by alcohol poisoning and sunstroke.
I know it's on a different subject, but a variation on my old favourite link (http://www.gicentre.net/blog/2013/11/24/risk-cycling-and-denominator-neglect) on the safety of cycling in London might be helpful.
I know it's on a different subject, but a variation on my old favourite link (http://www.gicentre.net/blog/2013/11/24/risk-cycling-and-denominator-neglect) on the safety of cycling in London might be helpful.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
People should just carry on regardless... HMG should not have forcibly recalled everyone- that knee-jerk reaction has resolved nothing and made the whole situation worse. Totally random acts of violence can't be defended.
Archie_tect
De Skieven Architek... aka Penfold + Horace
- Location
- Northumberland
Note to self not to visit Brighton... it's a dangerous place.
snorri
Squire
- Location
- East coast, up a bit.
You could try to adopt the attitude of the manager of the Duisburg Germany hotel I stayed at a couple of weeks ago which was situated near the centre of an area cordoned off by police, an area I was permitted to enter on my bicycle
. I suggested to the manager that there was some excitement in the area that day and he explained that a bomb had been found some distance in front of the hotel and said with a nonchalant glance over his shoulder and a sigh, that last week one had been found at the back.
They had been identified as British bombs, but I felt no guilt
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. I suggested to the manager that there was some excitement in the area that day and he explained that a bomb had been found some distance in front of the hotel and said with a nonchalant glance over his shoulder and a sigh, that last week one had been found at the back.They had been identified as British bombs, but I felt no guilt
.Of course, that is pretty obvious. Does not make it any nicer though.
swee'pea99
Squire
The Isle of Wight. You heard it here first...
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Where is safe exactly. Maybe the outer hebrides.
Depending on where you are travelling to, I would suggest the travel (eg driving to/from airports, travelling around etc) are more hazardous than the risk of terrorism.
Globalti
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I simply cannot understand why people would want to go and sweat for two weeks in some filthy hot country, let alone lie in the sun and get skin cancer. In my limited experience of second-rate hotels there is seldom decent air conditioning and the rooms usually have a view of some dull water, or the roof of a restaurant with vents, or the hotel car park. I have to travel on business to hot dirty countries where people have no manners and MTV culture is all they know but at least I'm being paid to do it, I can stay in nice hotels and I don't have to make a pretence of enjoying myself.
Scotland every time for me, nice and clean, beautiful, cool and civilised.
Scotland every time for me, nice and clean, beautiful, cool and civilised.
The solution is staying in better quality hotels of which there are plenty. The trouble is affording them.
So?
