Y’know all these guides to solo travel, where the writer bangs on about how it’s going to be the ‘best time of your life’, you’ll meet ‘lifelong friends’ who’ll help you ‘find yourself’ and you’ll ‘be bitten by the travel bug foreverrrrr’ etc etc?

Well, I’d say 99% of them are at least 88% exaggeration.

Rose. Tinted.

The realistic guide to solo travel

Obviously, I’ve made a career out of helping people to travel, I’ve travelled solo, and actively encourage others to do the same, but one of the things that I really want to enforce in this mini solo travel guide series is that there is no one way to do things, to experience travel or to expect your trip to be.

Solo travel can be hard, it can be lonely, people can be douche bags, places can be a underwhelming,