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Travel Solo without a Nervous Breakdown Part 2
Here is your ‘clearing head’ itinerary from The Women’s Travel Group. First Read Part 1. Arrival Day after a 2-3 hour nap, eat a healthy lunch include fruit/salad. Drink more water than you think you need. Ask the Front Desk for a hotel card and a map. Mark the hotel clearly on the map-you are tired—make the mark BIG. Ask staff to color a line for a neighborhood walk. Stroll the neighborhood monitoring landmarks. It is pretty easy to get lost when exhausted.…
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Worst things to lose on a trip
The two worst things for a woman to lose on a trip, that is besides your passport, medicine, and your composure are here.
On a trip to Rome, I forgot 2 items. Replacing them became an annoying time wasting errand. Not a credit card or medicine. Nor was it a trip document or phone charger. It was a hair brush and lip balm.
You might feel lousy when you awaken up the first morning overseas. Sleep was spotty, the bed different and and jet lag interrupted sleep.…
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Math 101 for Women Who Travel
There is a Math 101 to learn and share, if you are women who travel. Specific numbers and letters will find a booking, retrieve ff miles, and send you to the right gate at the airport.
The first number is your ticket number! Your reservation is stored by the airline in two ways. The ticket number is a long list of numbers and upper case letters. It will be in smaller font and on your boarding pass and reservation.…
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Loss, Bereavement Travel and Women
Please share these experiences from The Women’s Travel Group, with bereavement groups and friends.
Meeting new people in Dubai who have totally different lives Making travel plans can be fantasy or misery. We have been contacted many times by women in bereavement groups. Our first was in 2004. We were asked to meet and talk with a group of New York City Firefighter widows at Ft. Totten NY. Studies had been done which showed that 3 years after 9/11, an important priority was travel.…
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The Scent of Lost Luggage
Lost Luggage it felt like a disaster or at least the worst possible situation: lost luggage. Three of us in a Women’s Travel Group of 20 ladies, flew to India a day before the group. It was a direct British Airways flight: London to Delhi. What could go wrong? Luggage was checked through so embarkation was a breeze.
Well here goes: In Delhi, we cleared customs, then waited at the luggage carousel. Nothing came out. I mean no bags at all from the 350 BA passengers.…
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Be a Bus not Bust Girl
Our company provides transfers. When traveling alone, this writer loves Public Transportation: buses, subways, monorails, shuttles, ferries. In the US, bus still means the seedy bus station or rowdy college kids. Subway connotes anti social behavior. Shuttles take too long. Ferries have questionable bathrooms. But if you are overseas in any major European city, try the public transportation. You will save money with public transportation,and move quickly.
Heathrow Express Overseas, public transportation is used by all classes of travelers. In many cities public transportation is available for distances like airport to town or central bus station to ex-urbs.…
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Does war destroy Women’s Wanderlust?
War in the Ukraine; does war destroy our female wanderlust?
Source: European-Union.Europa.eu Let’s start with the fact that no European Union country has issued a travel warning related to war. Quite the opposite in fact, EU countries are easing regulations for what we know as ‘non essential travel’. Flights and hotels are full and flight statistics show price increases related to greater bookings. The Women’s Travel Group is busy and we see many of the same trends.Travel to Western Europe is benefitting from pent up demand from Europeans.…
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Women: don’t drink wine in your hotel room
A prior group to London and Countryside with The Women’s Travel Group Women who visit London with us in May: don’t drink wine in your hotel room. Our company is an expert in London. There are plenty of un-daunting places for a solo woman to end a travel day with a glass of wine. On our London/ Countryside trip, we’ll talk during dinner at my home on May 15, and recommend some historic pubs. In Britain, pubs are friendly and welcoming.…
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Packing and Weather
Packing and weather do not dance together well. During Summer, we pack light clothes and tees; therefore, forgetting that altitude and general direction of winds can create unseasonably cold air. Moreover, we forget that planes are cold and some airports as well. In winter we can overpack again forgetting that in cold weather, one can use sweaters and jeans for a number of days. But that shoes might get wet so we need a second pair.
A good way to zero in on what to pack is to make some notes on what you are wearing on different weather days.…
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Unfair Airline Situations and Rules
Airplane rules? I was on an AA flight coming home from our Tuscan Cooking Trip– coach of course- and the meal choices were red sauce spaghetti or chicken with red sauce spaghetti. Well I am not allowed to eat tomato sauce, so was totally out of luck for a 7 hour flight. (Forgot to say, the snack was pizza with tomato sauce.) As I was traveling solo, had no one to complain to. Complaining is always a catharsis even when hungry. …
