Eldest DGD off to Greece with her friends this summer

Give her a hug, plenty of Sun tan cream, condoms and tell her to buy drinks in bottles or if she gets it in a glass watch the bar person pour it then keep it with her all the time, if she does need to go to the bathroom she should get a fresh drink after in a clean glass unless she takes her drink with her. That's what my daughter's do when they go out clubbing.

Has she got an ehic card yet? (European health insurance) so if she does need a doctor she is covered? Suggest she applies now - and avoids any sites that are not actually UK gov or nhs as there are shysters who pretend to be official but ain't!
Hope she has a great time!

Does she ever go out in the UK? Have you not read the stories about what clubs here are like now? It's completely 'normal' for women to get groped twenty times crossing from one side of the room to the other. Drinks get spiked. Women are pursued out of the door. Drinking songs about rape are taught to the new students in their first week.

If she has been a student here, or a young person who just goes clubbing, or someone who has walked along the road, she will have had practice on survival and will be equipped to cope with Foreign.

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I don't know as I haven't checked but I think kidnapping is frowned upon, possibly illegal. If it isn't kidnap her; if it is then warn her about all the dangers within an inch of her life. It could save her from far worse misery than a nagging.

My daughter went to a lovely, university full of 'nice' students and she still had her drink spiked. Goodness knows what could have happened had she not been rescued by a friendly taxi driver and the lovely young man who is now her b/f.

Boys go to Malia for free and frequent sex. Some local boys look on English girls as fair game. Thieves target tourists whom they consider wealthy. You can choke on alcohol related vomit and die. These are not trivial dangers.

I was terrified when my daughter went to Keya as a student to help in a Masai school She was in an isolated village with people she didn't know, no electricity, no phones, no internet of course and it was before mobile phones. It took 9 days for her airmail letters to arrive home. I was so relieved when she got back safely.

When my daughter was 18 she went to Malia for 2 weeks on holiday with a group of friends. Such a great time was had that on her return she announced that the following year she wanted to go out and work during the holiday season. Much to my horror she gave up a good job and did just that with 2 friends, it took her over a week to get in touch to say she had arrived safely! I was beside myself with worry.
She worked in a bar and managed to earn enough to live, she came home getting on for 3 months later, she had a good time and got it out of her system although it took some time to get back into a decent job after a few bad experiences. If she were perfectly honest looking back, I don't think she would repeat the experience. Although it was a worrying time for me, I'm glad she got it of her system.

Yes it can be worrying. When eldest daughter was 18 she went to work on a kibbutz for 2 months, 2 years running.
The first was OK, I went over to visit her. But the Second one was right next to the Lebanon border, and soon after she arrived there were bombs flying over for a few days. They all had to go into the bomb shelters. As well as that she made herself deaf by diving off a tall cliff into the sea at Rosh haNikra. TG she got her hearing back.
But it was a great learning experience.

The point I was really making about my daughter in Africa in the 90's is that at least these days there are emails, Texts, Facebook, Skype, FaceTime, what's app and many other methods of instant communication. All I knew was that my daughter had been alive 9 days ago when she posted the letter - usually when they were taken to a town in the Masai lorry from time to time and had access to post. After she left the village she 'travelled' around Kenya with another girl I didn't know so I had no idea where she was - that was worse! On one occasion she saw a place where she could send a telegram so did - when I received it I was convinced she had died or at least was ill or in hospital. My relief when I read 'On a beach near Mombasa, all cool' was overwhelming! And dated the day before!

Whew-more things to worry about now! Condoms, phone bills, gangsters, sunburn. . . . Will it never end. . . . Lol!

To be honest, Newquay, a 20 year old probably knows far more about all those things, and MORE, than we ourselves do!

As she is at uni so living away from home and had the sense to deal with a "numpty" I would think she is a sensible girl. Also as there are 5 of them at least one of them will be sensible at any one time.

"Foreign" has the same dangers as here and Bournemouth is now called the
Ibiza of the south.

Of course we worry but there is nothing we can do and I just will the time to go faster until they are back safe. Also they worry about us oldies. I wonder why?

Do grannies really give condoms to twenty year old granddaughters? Do you bring them home from Tesco's with the shopping?

I think you should leave the advice giving to the parents. Your role is to worry quietly.

My GD had no need of contraceptive advice from me! She used to tell me all about them. Sometimes TMI! A 20-year-old student is unlikely to need anyone else to buy condoms for her.