There are two
things that you shouldn’t linger on when planning a trip. First don’t spend too
much time on the government travel advice website. It reads like the Daily Mail
and will ensure that you only ever travel to the Spain to a five star hotel;
where they only speak english and only serve cod and chips. The second is
travel health advice. Honestly. This stuff makes for a depressing read. After I
was done, I thought I was going to catch Ebola just from visiting Africa on
Google maps.
Fortunately if you
are a reasonable human being and understand that these are just risks. You
should just mitigate the risks as much as possible by getting vaccines and
taking the right precautions. I have an agreement with my travel nurse. My job was to turn up on time. Her job was to
stick me with as many thing as it took to ensure that I was suitably immune
enough that I would be able to confidently lick any puddle in rural Asia and
survive long enough to make it back to civilisation.
If you need travel
advice stick to travellers forums. They’ll give you a much more rounded view on
what to expect once you get there. Don’t bother reading the Daily Mail.GOV.
More to follow….
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