On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 21:54:17 GMT, MI
wrote:
>On 1/28/08 10:12 AM, in article fnl5uh$k9i$2@reader2.panix.com, "Alan
>Pollock" wrote:
>
>> sechumlib wrote:
>>
>>> That's all pretty laughable, in my opinion. We live in the US and have
>>> visited various parts of Canada, both warm and cold weather. No
>>> "terrorism, heavy snow, ice and forest fires" that we could see.
>>
>>
>> Somebody with no sense of humor would say that. Nex
>
>I agree. Except this has put out as gospel. In fact the other day the
>Australian ambassador defended it saying that 2 Australians had died in an
>avalanche. The fact they were out of bounds apparently didn't matter. What I
>found particularly amusing was comments on the forest fires in British
>Columbia. I wonder how the dimwits who put this out are going to survive
>their forest fires. I saw lots of evidence fire damage to forests when I was
>there in November. I guess I shouldn't have gone.
I'm glad you did, just sorry I missed you.
Bureaucratic cya twits exist in all our countries. An Aussie
site warning travelling Aussies of fire risks in Canada is
equivalent to an Inuit site warning their people to be
careful of slipping on the ice in Greenland.
If I took any notice of these sort of warnings I would never
travel anywhere. On my 2003 trip I was advised not to fly to
the US because of the fear of terrorist attacks by all my
friends as well as by multiple official sites; I took off
from Sydney for LAX followed by five other US domestic
flights (all surprisingly with lots of vacant seats:-) two
weeks before dubya invaded Iraq.
This time 'round I've been told that my driver must be on
time to join the police convoy from Aswan to Abu Simbel and
I must be on time for the return convoy that evening or I'll
miss the Cruise boat. And don't drink the water or even use
it to brush my teeth. And so on. I'm still going.
There is a thread on rec.travel.africa at the moment on
Kenya. And one on rec.travel.asia on Myanmar. They tend to
put the relative risks of Australia and Canada in context.
Cheers, Alan, Australia
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