Travel Warnings: True Horror Stories

While we are on the subject of  Real Life Travel Horror Stories,  our Canadian Government has a couple of stories of Imprisonment on their website.   They don't sound real to me...but there is one story of a nurse "Lucie" who smuggled drugs.....     www.travel.gc.ca/truestories   not that anyone would do something as foolish as that.

But - you don't have to necessarily be doing something obviously illegal to be detained.  There are countries where you can be imprisoned for the most minor infractions of local customs.  The statistics below show numbers but they don't show any breakdown or explanation.

Doing time abroad: Foreigners filling prisons

So beware, for even a friendly kiss or texting explicit messages can get you into trouble.

And then, as if that isn't a cautionary tale as it is....there are other things that can go terribly wrong.

I have done a lot of travelling in my day,  but I will tell you one thing..... I do my homework before going anywhere.