Solo Travel: Busting myths and top tips

Episode Summary: In the tenth episode of our new season of Love Life, Live Well, the tables are turned on our host Emma Cartmell and she is the in the host seat talking about her top tips when preparing for and travelling alone.

Episode highlights:

• How a self care trip after the pandemic resulted in a change of location full time
• What Emma loves about travel 
• Why she thinks solo travelling can be a form of self care
• How being alone can give you time to self reflect and sometimes make big decisions
• Taking the opportunity to travel when you can, irrespective of whether you have someone to go with you
• How getting lost can lead to an amazing adventure
• Safety tips for travelling
• The best countries for solo travel
• Making friends and meeting people when travelling
• Emma’s top tips when travelling

Key Takeaways:

• I love it for a number of different reasons. One, you definitely get to discover things about yourself in terms of your resilience and your independence and what you love. - Emma
  
  
• I guess being on your own schedule, you are not being dictated to by anybody else. - Emma
  
  
• Sometimes I just go off to places because I fancy it and other times there's a reason behind it. - Emma
  
  
• It worries me that people might almost kind of be laying on the deathbed and going, oh, I wish I'd gone to Peru or something. - Emma
  
  
• So you definitely do your research around just the culture of the place and where's good and what to do and that kind of thing is my number one tip. - Emma

Resources:

• Gran Tourismo
• Lonely Planet