mid Sept - vacation ideas

[CivicBlues]

I don't really consider pick-pocketing and opportunistic theft as a safety issue. It's literally something that can happen anywhere in the world. Rule for me is don't bring anything out with me I can't afford to lose. This is the rule for anything from heading out to dinner in Kits to walking around a sketchy Latin American neighborhood at night.

Things I would consider as safety issues would be a high prevalence of:
Violent Robbery (muggings)
Sexual harassment
Terrorism (sadly a fact in most Western countries now)
Political instability (demonstrations, riots)

Ironically, Eastern Europe has less of the latter 2 issues than Western Europe nowadays.

[tiger_handheld]

Originally Posted by 6793026

i will give tiger the BENEFIT of the doubt, most of the time, its not the dude, it's the wife / gf/ sign other who are not as adventurous.

i traveled to europe once and my gf was scared as fuck to stay in the air b n b apartment herself (we had the whole apartment). Again, some are not as educated as well as "my mom and dad kept telling me blah blah blah etc".

high # of people say to be careful of pick pocket in china / barcelona / hong kong... never had an issue.. yet my mom still wears her purse in the front when she's walking around Richmond....

This. She skipped on my trip to India to see Taj in Dec. She will not come to see Egypt pyramids. She will not go to mexico. She says certain countries it's better to go as husband + waifu and less chance of issues. I'm not a woman so I'll trust her call on this.

Thanks to all for suggestions. Keep them coming. I'm also considering Italy due to leaning tower

[Hondaracer]

Egypt is kinda sketch but the rest are typically aight..

If you go to Pisa the French Rivera is only about 1.5-2 hours north and the cinque terre is about the same south. Both are fantastic, easy going places. However, I’d say Nice feels more dangerous/grimy than a place like Berlin even as the influx of African migrants. This is actually quite visible and isn’t somthing that’s just mentioned for the sake of fearmongering.

Cinque terre is sick af













Pisa is nothing but the leaning tower, and that’s 2 hours (4 if you wait to go up maybe)

So there’s a lot of time to fill outside of that