There are a number of countries I really want to visit but just can’t.
I was going to book tickets to Syria in 2007.
It seems that Turkmenistan is out of the question.
The Hindu Kush is a no no.
New Orleans isn’t on the cards this year.
Basically if it’s a city or country with the culture and architecture that really really interests me. It’s boarders are going to be ‘edgy’, its government ‘unstable’ and the likelihood of my kidnapping ‘higher than I’d like’
Or there is the matter of price of flights.
Now I should state that the humanitarian in me is concerned with the plight of the people but I just want to see the caucuses. And ozymandias styled grandiose buildings.
Peace in our time, because war is taking its toll on my travel plans.
I don’t want to go to Corfu, then I don’t want gun toting militias or Kazakh gangsters, or teenage soldiers either.
So fuck it. I’ve not been to Granada.