Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
Category: -Europe
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Want to kayak where the kayak was invented? How about go dogsledding, snowmobiling or on a musk ox or whale safari? Then Kalaallit Nunaat is the place for you. Also known as Greenland. A place where you can view icebergs from a hotel terrace. A place where dog sleds have the right of way. Seriously. …
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I met Marilyn the same day I met the World’s Top Whistler. She’s American. He’s English. We all converged in Saddleworth, in the north of England. A bit of a drive from Manchester. Surely you’ve heard of Saddleworth? And the villages of Bleak Hey Nook, Brook Bottom, Crompton Fold, Delph, Diggle and Dobcross. No? Well,…
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Mary, Mary, quite contrary, is alive and well and living in a neo-classical house in Northern Ireland. I couldn’t believe it either. There really is a Mary! Actually, there’s a Mairi. As in Mairi, Mairi, quite contrary.And her garden still grows. It’s landscaped and huge and filled with silver bells (campanulas) and Pretty Maids (saxifraga)…
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I landed the other day on the "largest collection of women-centered travel classifieds on the Internet." I know this only because the site told me so. A site called Journeywoman. I’d been meaning to write about Journeywoman for the longest time. It’s just that I find it difficult to describe exactly what it is. What…
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So how did Sheara do, leaving her husband behind and traveling on her own in Barcelona for a couple of days?In case you’ve forgotten who Sheara is, she’s my friend from Massachusetts who I offered 10 1/2 tips to, back in early March. She wondered what to do in the evenings, alone in a big,…
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It seems crazy but you can become friends "for life" with people you spend a week with on vacation. Why this happens, I don't know. I'm reminded of it because on Sunday, I had dinner with Barry and Viv from Tampa. We met years ago on a skating vacation. Shortly after that trip, I had…
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It was not an auspicious first day in Holland. My bags were still in London and my room at the inn had been given away. And I was to set off the next day for an inline skating trip in Friesland. This is normally the time that many people explode. Or cry. Or pound their…
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I may be sooo 20th century, but sometimes I prefer to pick up a magazine instead of heading for the Internet for trip ideas. I’m looking, as we speak, at a section I ripped out of my National Geographic Adventure from November 2007. It’s called Best Outfitters on Earth. When you don’t exactly know where…
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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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Not all travel has to be about vacationing, in the sense of wining, dining and sightseeing. You could choose, instead, to wade into a culture or a community by serving as a volunteer. It’s almost a guarantee that lots of people will arrive solo. Imagine trying to convince a travel buddy to catch, color-band and…
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