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Category Archives: Solo Travel

My top 11 WTF travel moments

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Because travelling sometimes gets really weird! It can be fun, exiting, liberating… but there are plenty of times when you’re just like wtf, how did I get here? These are all of those moments, when things got too surreal.

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Myanmar, Personal, Solo Travel, Thailand
Bangkok credit: Nikolas Behrendt, Unsplash

Female solo travel: I was attacked in Bangkok

March 22, 2017by Cat 1 Comment

It shook my confidence as a female solo traveller, and the way I think about travelling in Thailand, but I want to share my experience so that you can be prepared next time you head off on holiday or backpacking.

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Personal, Planning, Solo Travel, Thailand

The first time I travelled solo…

August 5, 2013by Cat 4 Comments

There are plenty more tales from Asia yet to come, but I just wanted to update you on where I am and what’s going on. Two days ago I said […]

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