Went to loo in hotel on Cuba, first visit to country, and there's a lizard eyeballing me!
I yelped, hubby laughed. After that it was mosquitoes and ants. Later visits to Cuba I went armed with mosquito plug ins and ant traps. Decided I was probably safe enough with the lizards.
My niece, who now lives in Oz, went there weeks after her first one was born, and ended up in hospital due to spider bite. It was her first visit to Australia. Doubt I would have been brave enough to go live there after that.