Solo female travel adventures. Some of my stories, adventures & misadventures from travelling as a solo female traveller over 40. Gen-X all the way!
It’s August and I’m escaping the New Zealand winter and heading back to Bali and the Gili Islands for three weeks. I really love this place with its warm climate, culture and friendly people.After an early morning tequila or two, buffet breakfast including cappuccino and free wifi at the Strata Lounge https://www.aucklandairport.co.nz/eat-and-relax/strata-lounge in Auckland, the…
When I was growing up our milk was delivered in bottles, and groceries and fruit were packed in brown paper bags. Drinks like coke also came in bottles. We drank water in glasses that came from the tap, our biscuits were stored in tins and food was stored in Pyrex containers in the fridge. Baths…
I had wanted to do a trip like this for so long to see the Komodo Dragons but pretty much every review I had read was not so good, from the misadventures of Adventurous Kate to the bad reviews on Trip Advisor. I ended up booking with PT Nuansa Wisanta Bahari from the Gili Islands…
My first big trip was Mexico!! I decided to throw caution to the wind, put it out there and just go for four months. My Spanish consisted of “Hola” – Hello and “Cerveza” – beer! Call it naivety or an unknown adventure but I was off!! I had decided one of the best ways to familiarise…
Living in London with no family close to share Christmas with was going to be hard, so I decided to go to Paris for Christmas 2015. I caught the Eurostar from St Pancras on Christmas Eve and paid an extra ten quid to go first class which got me a meal and a small bottle of…