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To: TobagoJack who wrote (114570)	12/6/2015 7:56:13 PM
From: Elroy Jetson	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 218380

Jay - My comments to you were primarily based on your suggestions that France and other parts of Europe should be off-bounds for young people. There's places in Los Angeles I wouldn't spend time, just as there are in European cities. But most young people have enough common sense to figure that out. If you know the French police, the shootings in Paris are going to be a one time deal. France dealt with this problem in the 1950s with their colony in Algeria until they became independent in 1965. No country is quite as adept at suspending civil liberties in ferreting out terrorists as France - and the shootings in Paris just flipped that switch. For young people I'd have them steer clear of Lyon, simply because of idiotic juvenile gang delinquency in this rural city - fast souped-up cars, big pompador hairdos - hamburgers fires and shakes - the stuff you've seen in 1950s American movies. God only knows why reliving the 1950s is so big in Lyon, but it is. Having grown up in California I've not surprisingly spent a lot of time in Mexico and speak fairly fluent Spanish. I have a love hate relationship with the place. It's so cheap that it's attractive for college age students taking a holiday, but along with cheap and familiar, it's third world enough that it's fairly unappealing and you have to have some common sense abut how dangerous it can be. There's places I won't go in Mexico and there have been really violent periods during which I wouldn't recommend anyone go there. Apart from the period during the military coup, Fiji is safe but so depressingly backward and bureaucratically third world I don't enjoy being there. Like some parts of Thailand, most tourists in Fiji are taken from the airport in Nadi in a shuttle to one of the all inclusive resorts, ranging from Club Med up to super-luxury, where they spend their entire holiday until it's time to go back to the airport - similar to some resorts in Thailand. We've done that, but my tolerance level for all inclusive resorts doesn't really extend past 4 days.