Lennard Ramone

The Dutch department of Foreign Affairs has a really nifty app with travel advice and other handy information for people when they travel abroad.  My favorite part is the map. Every country in the world is classified on it.  There is a color code that shows how safe it is to go: Green: Safe. No problems to speak of.  This is nearly the whole of Europe, the USA, Canada, Australia etc. Basically all fully developed countries. Yellow: Still safe, but keep your eyes open. This is most of South America, except for Uruguay (Green) and Venezuela(orange). Parts of Northern Africa and the Middle East, the tourist hotspots in Asia like Thailand, most of the Caucasus (except for border regions in disputed areas like Nagorno Karabakh, South Ossetia etc) and small bits of former Yugoslavia like Kosovo and the border areas between Bosnia and Serbia. Orange: Only go if you really, really have to, and if you’re there, I would get out pronto. Hire local security where possible. This is normally countri