Praise be to Allaah. 

All of that is no excuse. The right thing is usually something that people find odd, especially those who have grown up following falsehood. You should not travel – if you can avoid it – to the kaafir countries, because when a traveller sees the Europeans and other kaafirs in this bad state, the commandments of Islam start to count for less in his mind and he pays less attention to them. He may find it odd the first time he sees how they are, and he may find it off-putting and hate it, but the more often he sees it, he gets used to it and may even start to like it. So it is not permissible to travel there, no matter what the circumstances, except in cases of necessity. And Allaah knows best.