Boldly Go Solo
How to set out solo, but not travel alone: Trips, tips and ideas for the active traveler.
Category: -France
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This is the second year that fall has come around and my thoughts have turned to…Guadalajara. The foods, the family I lived with there for a few days and the Guadalajara sights. The San Juan de Dios Market. (I just recently finished the vanilla I brought home from there, which reminded me of my trip…
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If you're a solo traveler and ski fanatic, you might want to follow Gabriella Le Breton's winter adventure. Le Breton is the subject of a series of articles in Britain's The Telegraph, called "Single for the Season" about a single woman who is visiting 20 ski resorts this winter. In mid-January, Le Breton was in…
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The cold weather is starting to settle in here in the Northern hemisphere. Instead of settling into your sofa, how about slipping out for some ice skating in the great outdoors? At scenic ice rinks around the world? The globalgrasshopper writes about 10 of the world's best outdoor ice rinks, (However, the one in Tivoli…
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Today's thoughts on solo travel come from The Travel Belles and the Wise Bread website. The Travel Belles post on 7 solo travel lessons is filled with luscious photos of the Loire Valley in France that I've borrowed (with permission) to use here. I practically cry, wondering how I could get my photos to…
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I landed on this chat about a traveler wanting to find a place to ski that offers rooms for one without a single supplement. The comments range from "Singles are losers to be exploited" to "unfortunately the economies of being a hotelier make it difficult to achieve what you want" to "I travel on my…
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I enjoyed this story from worldhum on introverted travelers. It showed me how the other half of solo travelers explore the world. The introverts, that is. Clearly without gabbing with a lot with strangers: "I am terrible at striking up conversations with strangers and I am happy exploring a strange city alone." The writer doesn't seek…
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Over the next several posts I will run some of the entries I received for the contest to win a foreign-language phrase book. I love the following story from B, who did not want his name used: "My parents lived in Indonesia for a year while my dad was advising a company there. They were…
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Women traveling alone in Europe likely will get stared at, groped and talked to by foreign men. But guess what? So will women traveling with others. I know this from nutty, annoying experience. So don't let that be the thing that prevents you, if you're female, from traveling solo. At reidsguides.com there's a funny post…
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I went to Paris alone. I was in my 20's and I wanted to learn French. Classes at the Alliance Francaise would be my ticket to fluency. But I knew no one in Paris. I spent the first few nights in a cheap hotel, sharing a hall bathroom. I wandered the streets in wonder. I practiced…
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