Yes, going to France on Saturday with the whole family. I'm feeling kind of nervous but I know that the risk is minuscule.

Everywhere besides Belgium seems fine. Seems like Belgium is uniquely unprepared to handle this sort of thing. Problem with that is -- raids will continue for a while. After the Paris attack, I believe Brussels was closed for business for 3-4 days -- as in, state of emergency, no public transit, and people told to stay indoors, as the Belgian police was chasing suspects. So what if that happens during your vacation? Not suggesting it as a safety risk but do you really want to go to Belgium and then get stuck in your hotel for 3 days unable to go anywhere and unable to make your flight/train to your next planned destination?

We are travelling to Netgerlands to see the tulips and I was not worried until now. I did not know they are a high-risk country

I would not go to Belgium next week simply because the country is still in a sort of crisis, areas may be shut down for days like it happened to Brussels a couple of months ago, heavily armed police or the army everywhere and so on. With all the places in the world, and even in Europe, I would go elsewhere next week (have you ever been to Prague? Portugal? Scotland? plenty of nice places to see). later in the spring maybe. what happened yesterday will happen again, and not just in Belgium, but at the end is like driving, somebody can hit you and you still drive

Yes go. YOu'll be fine.

Anonymous wrote:On my own, yes to Paris no to Belgium. With children, no to those two but likely yes to the rest of Europe. Yes to UK for sure.

Based on what?

Yes, and hell yes.

On my own, yes to Paris no to Belgium. With children, no to those two but likely yes to the rest of Europe. Yes to UK for sure.

Yes.

Anonymous wrote:Yes, I would go too. You can't put your life on hold.

+1

Yes. Inconvenience would be more on my mind than fearing violence.

You didn't mention Germany, but yes I would go to all those places, including Germany. I lived in Europe for 11 years and would go back in a heartbeat, even to live there if the opportunity presented itself.

Not Brussels since that city needs to clean up, but yes I would go to the other places.

Anonymous wrote:Yea, don't let the terrorists win. That's what they want.

Wait, the terrorists don't want Americans to holiday in Paris? I thought they wanted the west out of the middle east?

Not Brussels.

I heard intelligence experts criticizing the Belgian response post-Paris, and they seemed trouble that they only have 8 community police officers focusing on outreach and security in the Muslim area of Mullenbeck (however you spell it). These were EU security experts, and they were basically saying that Begium is really not equipped to secure the country and intercept intelligence.