Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
Category: Dining Solo
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On a scrap of paper somewhere, I have a recipe for a caramelized onion salad. It came from Jesus, a Cuban guy who cooked the delicious appetizer for me in an Arizona restaurant. I was sitting alone in the mostly empty dining room. Phoenix in May is not a prime destination. It’s a rotisserie. But…
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<–Turtle sighting! I did not go solo on a 15-mile hike on Martha’s Vineyard on Saturday. Six of us set out on the annual cross-island walk. That turned into a whopping baker’s dozen during a mid-morning break. That’s because my friend Joan, whose house we were staying at for the weekend, knows about a zillion…
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Most people don’t like eating alone at fancy restaurants. What they mean by alone is not having company at their table. How about being the only one in the whole restaurant? That’s what happened to me the other day. I got a same-day reservation at the Sooke Harbour House on Whiffen Spit Beach on Vancouver…
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Here are the top five Dublin restaurants for solo travelers, according to venere, a European hotel booking site similar to hotels.com. The site chooses these eating establishments for pluses such as: Avoca: "…the staff won’t blink at lone diners…" Cake Cafe: "…half the city is unaware of it’s location so you’ll almost always be able…
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Boston is ka-razy lively on weekend nights. I almost missed it. After a long day of conference sessions, I thought about staying in for the evening. But it was still shy of 6 pm and that would have been way too long an evening in a sterile hotel room. I briefly considered going to the…
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Maria was on her own, in "the cutest little pub I’d ever seen," when the bartender poured her a Guinness she hadn’t ordered. She was perplexed. Then the bartender told her it was from three Irish guys who noticed she was alone at the bar. She’d never had a drink sent her way by a…
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Reading about tonight’s total eclipse of the moon reminded me of an assignment I had several years ago. It was during the Leonid Meteor Shower of 2001. I was in Niagara Falls doing a story for The Washington Post. At some ungodly hour, I dragged my sorry self out of a hotel bed. I wanted…
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I had just one day to spend in Lisbon and I wanted to hear fado music. I didn’t actually know what fado was until a Spaniard clued me in, as I was leaving Madrid for my Lisbon stopover. Then I just HAD to experience it. Because, when in Lisbon, do like the Lisbonians do, that’s…
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Early in my career I went to Atlanta on business. I didn’t know anyone in town so I was on my own for dinner. I could have grabbed a burger but hey, the company was paying. So I treated myself to a nice dinner, or rather, I had the company treat me to a nice…
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