Is Mogadishu safe?

So it's a destination wedding? YABU to expect people to travel for that, especially when some of them are only invited to the evening do and not the actual wedding. And no children invited? I wouldn't let my DC be looked after by the pirates at the hotel's babysitting service .

In this essay I will be attempting to take a brief look at the historical attempts to answer the fundamental question of your time, is Croydon safe?
in order to do this we will of course have to first deconstruct the question, considering both the evolving concepts of safety as developed in the field of urban studies, the histor-socio-economic development of Croydon as a “place” within the greater metropolitan consciousness of London, and also the most bedrock of concepts the meaning of the word “is” as understood in a Hegelian sense as opposed to an existentialist sense.

Aga doo

Sorry

Yeah it's a blast over there

Timbuktu, Mogadishu or Ouagadougou?

Americans have tiny "ladies guns" that fit into a handbag that might be suitable for DS. (Don't tell him they're for ladies, you don't want him cross-dressing at his age.)
You can probably get one on Amazon.

I have booked a Pirate themed family holiday to Somalia. But on 2nd thought I would find off putting is DS (4) seeing other pirates boys having real guns. He's not allowed a toy gun as I find them very unrealistic. Real ones on the other hand might be a bit heavy for a 4yo... AIBU is it unreasonable to cancel the holiday for that reason? DH said I'm bonkers to cancel a once in a lifetime holiday.

That remains the funniest thing I've seen live on MN. If I remember correctly that whole thread was bonkers but the auto correct was just sublime!

You are a genius! You win best comment. Your prize is a weekend in Mogadishu!

We'll never get to the Mogadishu question because the Croydon question will never be satisfactorily answered.

No you’re thinking of Darrr Es Salaam, which also makes for a great weekend break.

Sorry to hijack (no pun intended) the thread but I'm in the same boat OP. I'm autistic and was considering spending a week on a busy construction site whilst wearing a jumpsuit made out of clothing labels and raised seams. I've heard the catering van there do good vegan hot dogs.

Do they celebrate Talk like a Pirate day?

Somali pirates are the best in the world I've heard.

The Foreign Office advice for travel to Somalia also gives a special link for women travellers. How kind.

Sounds like Luton.

Wait until you hear that Timbuktu is also a real place.

I might start a thread, Timbuktu or Mogadishu, where to go at Easter.

Just checked on travel advisory, this just in….

”Do not travel to Somalia due to crime, terrorism, civil unrest, health, kidnapping, piracy, and lack of availability of routine consular services.”

Sounds like an ideal weekend getaway.

Is anyone else reminded of the excellent auto correct that caught one Mumsnetter out when she was writing about Jacob Rees Mogg and it autocorrected to Jacob Rees Mogadishu?

Then a quick thinking Mumsnetter named changed to JacobReesMogadishu so the fun continued.

I think it began as an insult to Eton-educated Tory MPs in the last government: "Mogg, I diss you." The term was bastardised and spread out to East Africa as part of Boris's fantasy on resurrecting the British Empire, run by old Etonians.

Exactly. Are we really supposed to believe there’s such a place as “Mogadishu”?

Right on cue

I've checked Trip Advisor and there are some restaurants with rave reviews, but I think they might be written by the chef's DM. No Michelin* though.

Which is precisely why the dry climate makes it ideal transport for Mogadishu. No slippery conditions there, unless you’re wearing Factor 2,000,000 to escape the tourist snatchers.

or ständing on a box holding 8 cabbages, a board game, a cuddly toy and a pacman console while the crankies unicycle around you?

You hardly get any traction with a unicycle, especially in slippery conditions.