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Absolutely Yunki. Surely there's nothing that's happened over the last few decades that would....
..... wait a minute 🙁
From 1987 to the present I have regularly travelled around Europe and the UK as a lone female by hitching, cycling driving and public transport. I've stayed in campsites, wild camped, hostels, slept rough, stayed with people I've met along the way/people who have given me lifts or people I've given lifts to.
The only place I've ever had trouble was once in the UK when a bloke got his todger out whilst driving along the motorway. I told him I couldnt' do anything with it while we were driving so he had to pull over. Once stopped I got out, took my rucsac and legged it with him calling plaintively "I didn't mean it, don't tell the police..."
When hitching, I always carried a slim aerosol (hairspray/deodorant) of some sort up my sleeve, to spray in someone's eyes if things got properly dodgy. Weapons can be taken from you and used on you. Have never had to use them for anything other than deodorising or fixing hair.
Hello would you feel comfortable letting you 21 yr old daughter cycle tour through western europe into the balkans using camping as her main form of accomodation?
How safe someone is in any given situation is largely irrelevant of their age or sex, and extremely dependent on their attitude/mindsets/situational awareness/common sense/etc.
Holy thread revival Batman!
When I was in Romania the locals we were with in Bucharest advised against camping in the countryside (north of Bucharest around Brasov) - they reckoned it was too dodgy with the risk of getting robbed etc.
I reckon as long as she's careful about where she goes she'll be fine though.
Oh, just seen how old the thread is. 😳
She's probably long gone by now given that the thread started 11 months ago, pre TJ-ban!... (and, she'll be 22 now 🙂 )
Did she go? Did she return?
Or is she happily married to borat in khazakstan with baby number two on the way?!
Was she "Taken" and used?