or more like Am I Being Foolish?

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I met this guy very recently online and we've been Skyping each other every day. He started hinting heavily about me going over to meet him (he lives in another country) and telling me about the local hotels etc.

He lives with his family and I know he's not married.

Is his crazy?? I fancy him so much and just want to make everything we've been imagining to each other come true. Any safeguards I should know about? It's all so fast!

To all of those saying take a friend... While I know this is sensible for the op's safety, would any of you honestly give up annual leave and cost of a holiday to be sitting on your own in a hotel abroad while the op buggered off with some bloke? Or worse, left to wander the streets while she had a shag fest on your shared room?

Now I might if it was somewhere safe that I was keen to visit with lots going on (Barcelona, Amsterdam, Paris etc) but otherwise I wouldn't and I doubt most of my friends would either.

Op if you really want to go do as others have said, don't visit him at home and take your time before spending time with him alone. Make sure you have a regular check in with a friend at home. And other common sense stuff already said about meeting a stranger. That said, if I hadn't followed my heart with my Internet stranger, who lived a distance from me although the same country, I wouldn't be happily married with 2 lovely boys now

Thank you all. FFS it isn't an Eastern European country and he's definitely not married! I think I'll go for the adventure - worst case scenario is that hes a dick in real life but I have the hotel and the exciting city so it won't be a wasted journey.

Yellow dinosaur snort you did make me giggle, just right I'd tell anyone who asked me to come with them on a first date to bogg off... Especially if they were going to have a shag fest in our shared room lolz

I'd definitely go. As long as you book in a hotel you should be sage enough. And if you don't like him at least you get to have a holiday.

Well, I'm happy to assume that the OP has some degree of common sense!

Loads of people go on holiday or travel alone even in Eastern Europe I'd hazard a guess and manage to not be murdered.

Go to the city, arrange to meet in a public place like a coffee shop and gauge how much you like him. Who knows, he might only be 5 ft tall which might be a deal breaker for you!

Just take the same precautions you would take with internet dating, combined with the same precautions you would take when travelling abroad alone.