It's your ultimate travel nightmare. You are peacefully sunning on a beach somewhere, or enjoying Rome, or the pyramids in Egypt and suddenly everything goes bad. The bombs drop, the rebels attack, the world changes.

Some of us got a taste of this on 9/11. The rest of us probably think about it in the back of our minds (I know it crosses mine) - how would I get out if there was a revolution, plague, whatever? I do know I travel with more money than I used to and more credit in reserve in the hope that "money talks".

Monday night the travel channel has a program on called "Behind enemy lines or behind the lines" on how to survive etc.. I haven't previewed it but I'm definitely checking it out.

Oddly enough, such nightmares never trouble me. Between airlines and travel agents, accidents and mistakes, Loie and I have had enough delays, cancellations, broken bones, lost luggage, bad plumbing, incompetent hosts, indecipherable directions and other small time but maddening hooraw to fuel plenty of realistic nightmares and insecurities.

Doesn't stop us. Puglia and Rome this fall! Can't wait.

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Originally posted by Rome Addict:......Monday night the travel channel has a program on called "Behind enemy lines or behind the lines" on how to survive etc..

And tonight, Monday, is Anthony Bourdain's "No Reservations", filmed in Lebanon during the unexpected onset of the recent conflict.

Just saw it. Very interesting. And quite frankly IMO an emmy winning program if there is any justice.

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Originally posted by Rome Addict:
Just saw it. Very interesting. And quite frankly IMO an emmy winning program if there is any justice.

If you are referring to No Reservations, we just watched it and my husbands comment? I bet this wins an award next year.

Bourdain is great, that show is a DO NOT MISS.

This sounds interesting-- to be perfectly honest being caught "behind enemy lines" never even crossed my mind, even though I listened to all the accounts on the radio about tourists being stuck in Lebanon! I think maybe it's something that you just can't let stop you. I mean, something like that, or like 9/11, could happen virtually anywhere-- even at home. So what's the point of putting your life on hold?

Now I'm thinking about how I would survive, though!

I've never been travelling during a 'nightmare'. Like Suzanne, it isn't something I really worry about or let color my travel plans.
The closest I've been is to being affected by a disaster is when I retrieved a group of 5 travellers from Puerto Rico who were stranded at the St. Louis airport after 9/11. They stayed with us for 3 days until the planes were flying again.