Travelling on your own, without friends/family

I recommend u GTFO !

Originally posted by BahLord

I recommend u GTFO !

Originally posted by BahLord

I recommend u GTFO !

Originally posted by WeMeRA

Hi

I've put alot of thoughts about travelling by myself and since I've read that atleast Moxx have done it I thought also more ppl here on XJ have maybe done it. Anyways, I hope that some experienced dude on this matter could tell me what to think on while travelling alone. I got a few questions, hope I get some answers! :)

1. How's the best way to come in contact with ppl, to go party with etc..?
2. How do you spare your time in the best way when it gets lonley for to long?
3. Travelling destination tips? Please add some shit I should go checkout, historical building for an example ( I got a budget on 1500€ - 2500€, not sure yet)
4. What's your recommended time being away? a week? two weeks?
5. Maybe you could give me some answers on a question that I haven't thought about asking! :)

Hopefully you could help me guys!
Thanks!
/WeMeRA

Originally posted by ndR

what ndr wrote, I thought the post became to long!

Originally posted by finzEr

about wwoof: you're volunteering so you don't earn any money. But you live with your host (usually an open minded and friendly family) . You help them with their farms during, for example, a couple of weeks exchange of food and accomodation. It can be really nice, but don't expect to party a lot if you choose to do that.

about the youth hostels: people usually come and go and don't stay there forever. So you'd basically meet new people every week.

also if you travel alone and if you're the shy kind of dude, you will have to really force yourself to go right up to people and talk to them. otherwise you won't have a good time and eventually regret it.

1. How's the best way to come in contact with ppl, to go party with etc..?

Pretty much just talk to random people, I don't mean stop random people on the street.. But there's always people around that you can talk to. I mean if you're in Vegas you can just sit on the curb drinking a beer admiring the view and at the same time just talk to some other guys chilling.
What's good about traveling alone is that you get out of your comfort zone, in a good way.
If you travel with a friend or a group of friends, it's usually like you're in this bubble, not many outside people can penetrate it, and it's basically like hanging out at home, even though you're someplace else.. If you're alone, it's way easier just randomly talking to people, mainly because of the fact there's no one else you can talk too.

Other than that I mean.. just hit the pubs.. talk to cashiers, just whatever really.. Somethings gonna come up that you can do! Talked to people online from that area? Go see em for lunch?


2. How do you spare your time in the best way when it gets lonley for to long?

Do your research, what do you wanna see?
Category 1: Things you absolutely want to see, and can't miss.
Category 2: Things you want to see but wouldn't regret if you didn't.
Category 3: Things you don't really wanna see but could do it to have seen it.

I don't know what kind of person you are since you didn't clarify if you wanted to do a booz and cruise or watch monuments or slack at the hotel bar and pool..


3. Travelling destination tips? Please add some shit I should go checkout, historical building for an example ( I got a budget on 1500€ - 2500€, not sure yet)

Wait you don't have any clue where to go? This is your trip, not mine.
But I don't know, Italy? Amsterdam is chill, also has the best airport in my opinion (Schiphol).
I'm usually the road-trip guy, don't like being bound to a local hotel or using expensive cabs.


4. What's your recommended time being away? a week? two weeks?
All depends on your destination, and what you want to do. You breeze through cities pretty quickly if you're interested in 'em. So I would recommend not overbooking something, very hard to get money back from a hotel if you decide you wanna leave earlier. Thing about pretty much anywhere there's so many places relatively close that you can see, and it's cheaper once you're out there, rather to travel from your hometown to new places.

What I mean is that, (if it was unclear) that for example you go to Amsterdam, then Rotterdam is pretty close and doesn't cost alot of money to get to from Amsterdam, but from Åland to Amsterdam, then back to Åland then Rotterdam.. Will be one expensive trip(s).


5. Maybe you could give me some answers on a question that I haven't thought about asking! :)

Most important thing is not to overbook yourself, locking yourself in one place. Like I said earlier you breeze through the cities pretty quickly if you wanna see other stuff, if you're the type of guy that wants to stay a long time in each city or the place you travel to, then by all means book as long as you feel.

Also don't try to be cheap on the shit you wanna see and do, you'll regret it later. And chances are you wont go back since you visited it once. Going back to see one thing you regret not doing isn't easy. Living cheap to have more money to do stuff you want to do, is sometimes a good choice. Even though I personally like the privacy you get with living alone. There's of course a way to compromise this, in a way stay a few days at a hostel then take one or two nights a hotel to freshen up.. Relax, have a private shower. It's easy finding cheap hotels/motels just a bit outside the city. (Usually requires a car for your own convenience) even though most places have good bus communications to hotels.

Force yourself to go out, sitting in a hotel all day isn't fun and you WILL regret it, I promise you. It doesn't matter what you do.. just walk down the street, something will come up that sparks your interest.

Last but not least, going alone is fun at times, but having a friend with you makes things a bit more fun, because you have someone that you know to talk to. You can share the same dorm but do different things, if he's a bar guy and you wanna go see a church.. You don't need to be with each other all the time. It can be hard to find someone that does the exact same stuff as you, and some people might be clingy and wanna hang out all the time, but remember:
You do this trip for YOU, not for anyone else. See the stuff you want to see!

Originally posted by kz`Moxx

1. How's the best way to come in contact with ppl, to go party with etc..?

Pretty much just talk to random people, I don't mean stop random people on the street.. But there's always people around that you can talk to. I mean if you're in Vegas you can just sit on the curb drinking a beer admiring the view and at the same time just talk to some other guys chilling.
What's good about traveling alone is that you get out of your comfort zone, in a good way.
If you travel with a friend or a group of friends, it's usually like you're in this bubble, not many outside people can penetrate it, and it's basically like hanging out at home, even though you're someplace else.. If you're alone, it's way easier just randomly talking to people, mainly because of the fact there's no one else you can talk too.

Other than that I mean.. just hit the pubs.. talk to cashiers, just whatever really.. Somethings gonna come up that you can do! Talked to people online from that area? Go see em for lunch?


2. How do you spare your time in the best way when it gets lonley for to long?

Do your research, what do you wanna see?
Category 1: Things you absolutely want to see, and can't miss.
Category 2: Things you want to see but wouldn't regret if you didn't.
Category 3: Things you don't really wanna see but could do it to have seen it.

I don't know what kind of person you are since you didn't clarify if you wanted to do a booz and cruise or watch monuments or slack at the hotel bar and pool..


3. Travelling destination tips? Please add some shit I should go checkout, historical building for an example ( I got a budget on 1500€ - 2500€, not sure yet)

Wait you don't have any clue where to go? This is your trip, not mine.
But I don't know, Italy? Amsterdam is chill, also has the best airport in my opinion (Schiphol).
I'm usually the road-trip guy, don't like being bound to a local hotel or using expensive cabs.


4. What's your recommended time being away? a week? two weeks?
All depends on your destination, and what you want to do. You breeze through cities pretty quickly if you're interested in 'em. So I would recommend not overbooking something, very hard to get money back from a hotel if you decide you wanna leave earlier. Thing about pretty much anywhere there's so many places relatively close that you can see, and it's cheaper once you're out there, rather to travel from your hometown to new places.

What I mean is that, (if it was unclear) that for example you go to Amsterdam, then Rotterdam is pretty close and doesn't cost alot of money to get to from Amsterdam, but from Åland to Amsterdam, then back to Åland then Rotterdam.. Will be one expensive trip(s).


5. Maybe you could give me some answers on a question that I haven't thought about asking! :)

Most important thing is not to overbook yourself, locking yourself in one place. Like I said earlier you breeze through the cities pretty quickly if you wanna see other stuff, if you're the type of guy that wants to stay a long time in each city or the place you travel to, then by all means book as long as you feel.

Also don't try to be cheap on the shit you wanna see and do, you'll regret it later. And chances are you wont go back since you visited it once. Going back to see one thing you regret not doing isn't easy. Living cheap to have more money to do stuff you want to do, is sometimes a good choice. Even though I personally like the privacy you get with living alone. There's of course a way to compromise this, in a way stay a few days at a hostel then take one or two nights a hotel to freshen up.. Relax, have a private shower. It's easy finding cheap hotels/motels just a bit outside the city. (Usually requires a car for your own convenience) even though most places have good bus communications to hotels.

Force yourself to go out, sitting in a hotel all day isn't fun and you WILL regret it, I promise you. It doesn't matter what you do.. just walk down the street, something will come up that sparks your interest.

Last but not least, going alone is fun at times, but having a friend with you makes things a bit more fun, because you have someone that you know to talk to. You can share the same dorm but do different things, if he's a bar guy and you wanna go see a church.. You don't need to be with each other all the time. It can be hard to find someone that does the exact same stuff as you, and some people might be clingy and wanna hang out all the time, but remember:
You do this trip for YOU, not for anyone else. See the stuff you want to see!

Depends on what do you want to do. If you're looking for alcohol tourism, your budget is surely more than enough for a whole summer (3-4 months) in Sunny Beach, Bulgaria - cheap booze, cheap (free) girls, sand, sea, parties.

It is visited by thousands of Scandinavians and Russians.

I personally would never go there.