Even general travel advice will deter
you. British travellers will find government warnings about the tick-borne
encephalitis that lurks in the forests of Estonia and the Czech Republic, and
the pickpockets who prowl their capital cities, at
http://www.fco.gov.uk/reference/travel_advice/. Americans are warned
(http://travel.state.gov/) that if they venture to Iran, they should leave their
family Bibles at home—however God-fearing they are—as people caught
trying to convert the locals “are subject to arrest and possible execution”.
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