Egypt...

Yes, that subject is correct. Most of you have heard about the bombings in Dahab. I was there in February - it's where my diving gear malfunctioned.

I don't think that I had actually eaten at the restaurant, but certainly knew where it was, and had passed it, and the bridge, on a daily basis.

So how do I feel? It was the surprise of hearing about somewhere I had been, but not in a good way. There's a bit of the "before the grace of God go I" feeling.

Would I go back again? Not to Dahab - I didn't have a good enough time there the first time. Would I go back to Cairo or Luxor? Yes. Bali? Yes. London? I'm going.

As an engineer, I try to weigh, measure, calculate. I'll travel to areas with prior terrorism on the assumption that the occurance of something "bad" is more or less a random event with low probability. I don't go to places like Nepal, where the government is unstable at best. It seems to me that unstable governments lead to "bad" events that are still random, but with a slightly higher probability. Or it may be that there's no mechanism to deal with a "not so bad event" random event, thus increasing the probability that a spirals out of control into a "bad" event.

There has to be a PhD dissertation in here somewhere...