Date:         Sat, 6 Oct 2007 15:15:47 -0400
Reply-To:     Joy Hecht <hecht.joy@GMAIL.COM>
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From:         Joy Hecht <hecht.joy@GMAIL.COM>
Subject:      trips you probably shouldn't take in your vanagon - worse than
              brain-eating bacteria!
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Saw this recently on some listserv that someone put me on - more details
here:  http://www.travelindustryreview.com/news/6407



"As the number of kidnappings increases, as Afghanistan is returning to the
worst days of its recent history, France's super-spies are having to concern
themselves with "extreme tourists."

France's intelligence services are not back yet: in April a French couple
and their three children, all aged under 10, crossed Afghanistan in a
Volkswagen combi. The happy family wanted to reach Uzbekistan, having set
off from the Pakistani city of Peshawar. In a country immersed in
instability, as again shown by the attack in which a French soldier was
killed 10 days ago, their journey was enough to cause serious anxiety to any
police force. And this tragicomic anecdote is sadly far from an exception."




Joy