lifestyle filter: Accidents: "Being abroad, in an unfamiliar culture, away from family or close friends, can make the accidental seem even scarier, and home much farther away at those times. (...)
So where do you cross the line from prudence to paranoia? Giving another glance before you cross a London street (no, no, look the other way) is probably prudent; avoiding a Western European subway system simply because you don’t know it would probably be paranoid. When you travel internationally, you have to, again by definition, move out of your comfort level and approach the unfamiliar to learn anything new. (Though that need not be the purpose of travel.)
And yet, logic and odds and approaching the new might have to wait, until Valencia is out of mourning."