Planning A Trip To The Costas This Year?

[ToraToraTora]

http://www.express.co.uk/news/world/651151/Holiday-Brits-Spain-terror-warning-expert-warns-ISIS-danger
Will Daesh and co put you off?

[Baldric]

Let's see if this works

https://s.yimg.com/fz/api/res/1.2/OnCge_FXI3EvnYhScaCHkA--/YXBwaWQ9c3JjaGRkO2g9NDA0O3E9OTU7dz02MTM-/http://www.spainted.com/images/spain-costas.jpg

[tonyav]

Due to its location, the Strait is commonly used for illegal immigration from Africa to Europe.[9]


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Strait_of_Gibraltar

[Cloverjo]

It wouldn't stop me going to the Costas if I had planned a trip. Anything like that could happen just about anywhere. No point in worrying about it.

[Mamyalynne]

The article states.....


//A leading security expert has issued a warning for a Paris-style attack, singling out Costa Brava, Costa Blanca and Costa Del Sol as at particular risk.//

[Prudie]

It's in the article mikey "A leading security expert has issued a warning for a Paris-style attack, singling out Costa Brava, Costa Blanca and Costa Del Sol as at particular risk". These are specific areas on the coast of mainland Spain.

[mikey4444]

Thanks Mamy and Prudie...an explanation without the vitriol !

[jomifl]

With an average lightning strike death rate of 6 per million people per year I think that wearing rubber boots would be a more sensible precaution than avoiding the Costas.

[Togo]

From what I can make out on the wiki links mention of illegal immigrants av, it takes you way back to the Carthaginians Moors and Berbers. I think the local ferries were sorted long ago as an easy route.

[Mamyalynne]

To answer the OP, I don't go on holidays overseas but if I did I would research my destination before making my decision.

[jomifl]

I think a suicide bomber would show up on a beach, look out for speedos with a large lump in them.

[Baldric]

You mean like this?

https://sp.yimg.com/xj/th?id=OIP.M3ab74843a0f0fc73f972b620ae73ea2eo0&pid=15.1&P=0&w=287&h=187

[mikey4444]

Baldric...by the way, I am still waiting for my challenge to be answered at
11:30 today !

You have partially answered it by saying that you couldn't possibly be bothered to make the effort to give an answer, but a full answer is still to be welcomed !

[Togo]

No one displayed any vitriol whatsoever mikey, bit of piste aching perhaps. Take a kick in the Balearics as deserved.

[tonyav]

Doesn't seem to stop them from trying though, Togo.

http://spanishnewstoday.com/nine-immigrants-rescued-from-the-strait-of-gibraltar_66926-a.html

[Baldric]

Mikey, I believe what I actually said was, "You post so much drivel on here that I couldn't be asked to go through it to find a relative post just to please you"

[jomifl]

You are going in the right di rection Baldric.

[Baldric]

A Seagull, good grief no. not in a pair of Budgie Smugglers ☺

[Baldric]

I did think about it, but JJ would have popped up and called me pedantic if I had.