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

Review
"Anyone considering traveling by themselves would be wise to consult this well-organized and innovative travel guide."--Iowa City Press-Citizen


Book Description
Traveling Solo is the ultimate guide to traveling alone. It introduces the unique pleasures of solo travel. Readers can tailor a vacation to their individual tastes, energies, and timetable; go wherever they wish; do exactly what they want to do; and meet fascinating people of all ages and all walks of life along the way.

Award-winning author Eleanor Berman offers ideas and advice for more than 250 trips for solo travelers--each as varied as the ages, budgets, tastes, and interests of millions of singles.
This book provides all the pertinent information on a wide range of vacation options, including:
>Approximate costs
>Common age ranges of participants
>Percentage of people traveling alone
>Typical male/female ratio
>Candid comments from former trip participants

This guide helps solo travelers choose and plan for a trip that's just right. The author discusses European trips for music lovers, wine connoisseurs, and gourmet cooks; workshops in language, photography, and painting; a biking tour of Provence; a cruise in the fjords of Norway; wilderness expeditions in Alaska and Nepal; luxurious spas in the deserts of Arizona and the tropics of Mexico; and many more.

In addition to specific vacation ideas, Eleanor Berman gives advice about how to travel safely and intelligently while alone, or as part of a group, or as a single parent with kids.

The author also includes her favorite cities for traveling alone, giving descriptions and personal impressions of what it is like to be a solo vacationer in a major city.


About the Author
New York City resident Eleanor Berman is an award-winning, widely published travel writer who frequently travels on her own. Her travel and feature articles have appeared in Caribbean Travel & Life, Ladies' Home Journal, and Modern Bride. She is also the author of Recommended Bed & Breakfasts New England and New York Neighborhoods (both published by Globe Pequot).



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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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