I Am Very Worried

tesuhoha

Guess I'm just being silly.

KiKi

tesuhoha wrote: »

Guess I'm just being silly.

Nope, you're just being a mum!

KiKi

savingmummy

Not silly at all!
The fact she is going alone and coming home alone is a worry for a start BUT its good to know she is confident to do so.
At least she is meeting up with a friend and travelling about with her/him.

For reassurance maybe get her to call you on arrival and before she leaves for home.
I do!! i`m almost 30, married with children and my parents still worry if i go away!!
As my parents say it don`t matter how old they are they are always your `babies`.

PoorCharleyBear

In Australia, going to Bali is like going to Spain for we Brits.

The Aus govt post these warnings because the people responsible for the Bali bombings in 2006 (?) got treated very leniently and it seems to rankle.

My (Aussies) mate took her 4 year old, 2 year old there a month ago, and went with her parents, her sister's family and their 3 year old.
They had a whale of a time.

Let her go and don't worry

(As an aside, in the 90's I worked in Eire/Northern Ireland, before the peace process....family in UK panicked as I crossed the border weekly, but people were lovely and I saw very little to worry me)

KiKi

savingmummy wrote: »

For reassurance maybe get her to call you on arrival and before she leaves for home.
I do!! i`m almost 30, married with children and my parents still worry if i go away!!
As my parents say it don`t matter how old they are they are always your `babies`.

I do the London-Melbourne flight 4 times a year, and I still have to give my mum all my flight details...so she can quite literally track me online. She loads up the page on her phone, and checks it every 30 minutes (for a period of 22 hours) to see if I've crashed. She even checks at night.

When I land in Melbourne I get a whole series of text messages on my Aus phone that say things like:
"You're over the UAE"
"Halfway to Hong Kong"
"You've just taken off"
"They should be serving you dinner about now"
"You've just landed"
"Please confirm you've just landed"
"Are you at baggage claim yet?"

I'm 33.
KiKi

System

littlestar1981 wrote: »

This is helpful: http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/travel-advice-by-country/asia-oceania/indonesia1

The UK haven't advised against travel of any sort or to any part. If she's been to Africa I'm sure she'll be fine, my mum was so upset when I told her I was going to Africa and it took months for her to come round. Also her travels mean she'll have learnt a lot about being vigilant, and she'll be better than many others at recognising signs of danger, so...

It's probably more likely that she'll get hurt in some accident here than bombed or kidnapped in Bali. And as long as she follows any advice given by a nurse she should be OK health wise.

If she comes back and says next she wants to sail off the coast of Somalia, or visit Afghanistan, THEN put your foot down!!!

Following on from this post that website also has travel advice for female travellers

http://www.fco.gov.uk/en/travel-and-living-abroad/your-trip/women-travellers

Ames

KiKi wrote: »

I do the London-Melbourne flight 4 times a year, and I still have to give my mum all my flight details...so she can quite literally track me online. She loads up the page on her phone, and checks it every 30 minutes (for a period of 22 hours) to see if I've crashed. She even checks at night.

When I land in Melbourne I get a whole series of text messages on my Aus phone that say things like:
"You're over the UAE"
"Halfway to Hong Kong"
"You've just taken off"
"They should be serving you dinner about now"
"You've just landed"
"Please confirm you've just landed"
"Are you at baggage claim yet?"

I'm 33.
KiKi

My mum was like that when I went to Venice. I was only there for four days so it didn't occur to me to check in (I only used to talk to her once a week normally). I had a whale of a time and only turned my phone on when I got on the bus to go back to the airport, and got a load of panicked messages. Apparantly the weather was so bad back here that the airport I flew from closed the day after I left and didn't open till the day I was returning :rotfl:. She was probably relieved that the ash cloud stopped my next trip abroad!

ashaput

No need to worry. Believe it or not, I am in Bali now and have been here for almost a month
Let her go. You don't need to worry of your daughter, she'll be fine. Or, do you want to come along with her to Bali?lol. It is such a paradise here.

Jo.1981

Even in this country everyone is at risk of credit card fraud, terror attacks. Somethings you can plan for and avoid others you can't - thats life.

JCP

KiKi wrote: »

I do the London-Melbourne flight 4 times a year, and I still have to give my mum all my flight details...so she can quite literally track me online. She loads up the page on her phone, and checks it every 30 minutes (for a period of 22 hours) to see if I've crashed. She even checks at night.

When I land in Melbourne I get a whole series of text messages on my Aus phone that say things like:
"You're over the UAE"
"Halfway to Hong Kong"
"You've just taken off"
"They should be serving you dinner about now"
"You've just landed"
"Please confirm you've just landed"
"Are you at baggage claim yet?"

I'm 33.
KiKi

Strewth! No offence, but sometimes you just need to put your foot down with parents. I got this kind of thing when I first left home, but made it clear that I was an adult now and that constantly checking up on me and badgering me to check in wasn't acceptable. Result was that when I consequently went to Vietnam for a month on my own, the reaction was "That's nice dear - be careful crossing the road" - everyone was a winner! Mum had learnt not to worry unnecessarily.

And in the OP's case, you are worrying over nothing. Bali is no more dangerous than anywhere else.