Worrying advice

I'm a fool. I thought I'd be smart and read the Foreign & Commonwealth Office advisories on the countries I'm thinking of going to. So now I expect to catch malaria by being bitten by a rabid express kidnapper posing as a bogus taxi driver the minute I step out of the airport. Sigh.

I take some comfort from the fact that the advisory for Spain makes it look nearly as bad, and I wouldn't really think twice about going there.

"The chief danger in life is that you may take too many precautions." -- Alfred Adler