This evening I've called my uncle, one of the Euro-crates in Brussels. He is fine and his colleagues, too. Some of them have passed the subway-station a few minutes before the detonation. And one lady a few minutes after that...
One colleague was really lucky: he left the airport a few minutes before and went to town with the subway. He took the train before that one, which was bombed.

I do have a few people around, who are that afraid, that they don't visit big cities or events any more and don't travel to vacations neither. That's stupid and paranoic. You cannot be absolutely safe, nowhere, not even at home. Despite the fact, that the most deadly accidenty happens in the own home, noone can be sure, not to meet a maniac with a knife in his street.

I'm sure, that one of the next big attack will be in Germany. It was already very close in the past, see the bomb with the malfunction in Cologne. And the rumours about a planned attack at the Christmas market in Dortmund (10 minutes by foot from my office).

Generally I do have the "now more than ever"-attitude. I plan a trip to Berlin the second next weekend and I would go to Istanbul again - the last bomb there missed me and my wife for exactly one week. The Saturday before we bought exactly there some ice cream and some sweets.

It was already closer: in 1997 a bomb in Jerusalem detonated just 3 days after I sat exactly on the resting bench beside the dustbin, where it was deposited.