I am a 34 year old single man, living alone. I already went to Canada in 2015, England in 2016, and Italy in 2017. I am thinking of visiting Greece in 2018. This will be my 4th solo trip. My mother thinks I am totally nuts, or worse. She thinks Greece sounds dangerous because it is near the middle east; she thinks that I shouldn’t travel anywhere, but that if I do travel, I should go with an organized group. She doesn’t know that Rick Steves tours exist, but this is the sort of tour she is thinking of. My judgment - she thinks my judgment is wrong - is that I would feel out of place if the people on a tour were all 60-90 years old, or much younger than me; I am on a strict diet now and I want to buy most of my own food at whatever markets or grocery stores are available; I probably will want to join on or more guided tours that ech last no more than a few hours; my mother is 64, but she has never ridden in an airplane - she is afraid of flying; she grew up in the ghetto in the city of Detroit where the crime and murder rate is higher than average; I don’t smoke or drink, I will not be seeing prostitutes or trying to hook up with strange women, I am not into partying but there is a chance I will will be walking around after dark - I am currently thinking of traveling in October but the last two weeks of December would work better with my work schedule because my work is normally closed for 10 or 11 days at the end of December.
I don’t think any of you will tell me that traveling alone is dangerous, but I just want to make sure; I want to avoid feeling like I am doing something wrong or dangerous for walking around alone given that my mother feels like my traveling is “half-cocked”, like I “have a screw loose”, am “totally nuts”, “have no sense”, “have no sense of personal saftey”, and so on. Does Greece seem more or less dangerous than the 3 other countries I visited?