antman said:
My girlfriend was in Bali the day before the first Bali bombings, and I was in Bali the day of the second Bali bombings. I walked past the restaurant about four hours before it was bombed.
I don't stop travelling to Indonesia or anywhere else because of terrorism.
Mostly agree. Won't be visiting Iraq or Syria anytime soon though.
Funny story actually, a couple of years ago my girlfriend was moving house, (in with me), she had a big garage sale. This Iraqi bloke came and bought some stuff and we got talking. We was a uni lecturer over there but a restauranter here. Anyway it had been a long day, I'd had a couple of stubbies, and I've always wanted to go to Iran, still do. Dumb-arse me gets Iran and Iraq mixed up. And I say 'I really want to go and visit Iraq'. This bloke just looks at me like I was crazy, and says 'what?' I said it again, and he says, 'my friend, you go there, you will probably get killed'. Then I mumbled something about wanting to go when its peaceful because I was too embarrassed to admit the mix up, he just shook his head, and said 'just come to my restaurant, I give you Iraqi food, you won't get killed'. I said OK