As you might expect, being on the road as a solo traveller can be a lonely affair. It doesn’t have to be and it is up to you to decide what you want from your trips. Personally, I enjoy meeting people on my travels. As I have mentioned before, I have been lucky enough to make (what I consider) some lifelong friends from my backpacking trips. It is a great aspect…
Stockholm. The Swedish capital and home to superb architecture, great food and beautiful people! I explored the historical Gamla Stan, tried to be hip and happening in hip and happening Södermalm, wandered the rarefied streets of the Östermalm, strolled the Djurgården and sampled lots of great places to eat across this fantastic Scandinavian city. I took the free tour (as I always recommend), with a sweet, if a little hapless,…
I tend to travel like Mariah Carey and Elton John on a world tour. I feel the need to pack anything and everything into my luggage and then curse myself for bringing so much unnecessary things with me. It is that need to have something for every eventuality, the ‘correct’ clothes for the places I am visiting and the toiletries I might possibly need in case of a…
I fell in love on my first solo trip to Australia and New Zealand. I encountered a love that held no boundaries, a love that came in a number of tempting flavours and, most importantly of all, a love that gave me an immense amount of pleasure! That love came in the form of the chocolate covered biscuity goodness of Arnott’s Tim Tams. Being a vain, self-obsessed health freak,…
A newly single friend of mine asked me the other week for ideas for a trip she could take by herself; the first one abroad since her break up. It got me thinking…where and what makes a good destination for first time solo travel. I know this topic has been covered umpteen times on travel forums and I am not here to reinvent the wheel, but I feel that there…