Traveling Solo: Advice and Ideas for More Than 250 Great Vacations

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Two may be company, but sometimes one is all you need for the road. Consider the benefits of solo travel: nobody to please but yourself, and no hassling over where to go, what to do, or how much to spend. In Traveling Solo, Eleanor Berman not only extols the virtues of a trip of one's own, but she also gives you plenty of advice on how to plan the perfect solo vacation. From group vacations for single travelers to safety tips for those who truly want to go it alone, Berman presents a wealth of information geared to singles of all ages and budgets. How about spending three weeks studying painting in Assisi or cooking in Venice? What about bicycling in Yellowstone or trekking in Nepal? As Berman makes clear, there's plenty to see and do for the solo traveler--and plenty of people to meet along the way. Traveling Solo includes chapters for women traveling alone, single parents, and older travelers. Along with more than 250 great vacation ideas, Berman offers solid advice on how to be both safe and smart during your solo perambulations. This is the book to read if you're considering striking out on your own.


Book Description
Travel expert Eleanor Berman shows that you don't always need a traveling companion to have a wonderful time. There are unique pleasures to traveling alone. It's a chance to tailor a vacation strictly to your own tastes, energies, and timetable, to go where you please, do exactly what you want to do, and meet interesting new people of all ages. This award-winning guide details the exciting possibilities for travel without a companion - vacations as varied as the ages, budgets, and interests of millions of singles, including: European trips for music lovers, wine connoisseurs, and gourmet cooks; work shops in language, photography, and painting; volunteer opportunities for travel while making a contribution to humanity; cruises in the fjords of Norway or on Europe's great rivers; wilderness expeditions in Alaska, Africa, and Nepal; luxurious spas in the deserts of Arizona and the tropics of Mexico; great city tours of New York, San Francisco, and Paris; sports camps for amateur tennis and baseball players who dream of training like the pros.


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Travel expert Eleanor Berman shows that you don't always need a traveling companion to have a wonderful time. There are unique pleasures to traveling alone. It's a chance to tailor a vacation strictly to your own tastes, energies, and timetable, to go where you please, do exactly what you want to do, and meet interesting new people of all ages. This award-winning guide details the exciting possibilities for travel without a companion - vacations as varied as the ages, budgets, and interests of millions of singles, including: European trips for music lovers, wine connoisseurs, and gourmet cooks; work shops in language, photography, and painting; volunteer opportunities for travel while making a contribution to humanity; cruises in the fjords of Norway or on Europe's great rivers; wilderness expeditions in Alaska, Africa, and Nepal; luxurious spas in the deserts of Arizona and the tropics of Mexico; great city tours of New York, San Francisco, and Paris; sports camps for amateur tennis and baseball players who dream of training like the pros. (5 1/2 X 8 1/2, 352 pages, illustrations, charts)



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Fully revised and updated for the millennium, this guide offers advice and ideas for more than 250 trips for travelers without a companion--from music lovers to gourmands, photographers to painters, cyclists to cruise aficionados. 15 illustrations. Appendix.


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