Fun and Odd Christmas Facts:

Fun Holiday Facts

Fun Holiday Facts 32 Days Left, Solo Destinations.Did you know:  Although there is nothing more traditional than an English Christmas, during Oliver Cromwell’s time most festive celebrations were banned as not in keeping with the Puritans’ view of an appropriate religious observance at Fun Holiday Facts.

Fun Holiday Solo Travel Destination:

Space available is filling up fast so don’t delay: Now is the time to book a truly unique Christmas/New Year’s in Fiji.

Think that is a destination only for honeymooners? Checkout our Solo Travel Blog Fiji For Solo Travelers.

Consider the following exciting options that await you there:

–Scuba diving and snorkeling through Fun Holiday Facts.

-Swimming with sharks

-Rappelling down thirty feet next t...

Fun Holiday Alone

Fun Holiday Alone Destinations. With only 34 days left until New Year’s, we are launching the Holiday Countdown with a daily fun/odd holiday fact and top solo travel destination. To avoid being “home alone for the holidays’, check in with us each day for ways and places to celebrate Fun Holiday Alone.

New Yr’s Minus 34 Days and Counting: Where can you celebrate the holidays by heaping dishes at your favorite next door neighbor?  In Denmark, those who have the most dishes broken on their doorstep are considered lucky indeed to be so popular! It seems strange but perhaps you have to be there to enjoy it! Have Fun Holiday Alone.

Fun alternative to spending the holidays home alone: Book a Holiday Markets River Cruise to your choice of the Rhine or Danube for 8 days/7 ...

Solo Travel Warnings

Solo Travel Warnings, Avoid Arrest Abroad: In your plan to go abroad for fun, it is easy to miss strict laws at your chosen spot. In Asia and the Mideast, drug laws are well-known. In one such destination, I recall at Immigration/Customs a sign that “drug traffickers face the death penalty”. In one popular Mideast destination on a past trip, I learned there were then 200+ drugs that carried a 4 year jail term for possession. The shock? It included certain drugs legal at home and even others used at home but still able to be detected later on a lab test abroad.

What to do? As Solo Travel Warnings they say, “know before you go”. Since many of us in the US and Canada go to Europe often, it is easy to overlook their rules...

American Thanksgiving Recipe:  green bean casserole! I remember the day my taste buds were changed forever: Thanksgiving 1985 and my host mother in Maryland USA, in whose family I was living as a student for the year, produced the iconic green bean casserole.

I have been making American Thanksgiving ever since and slowly but surely turning Kiwis onto this vege dish that goes brilliantly with Tom Turkey. However, it’s so good that when I go back to America and we all get together for dinner, we’ve been known to make TWO casseroles just so we have a whole one left for the next day.

Update: sadly Carol, my American mom, passed away just before Thanksgiving 2019, so I now share this post in her honour. x

Here’s how to get your American Thanksgiving on and make Carol’s Green Bean Cassero...

Solo Vacations Trave

Solo Vacations Travel. 6 Tips On How to Save on Solo VacationsTravel:  As much as I love the road less traveled by, dodging leering crocodiles and navigating cholera epidemics and low grade civil wars, I have been mulling ways to have a fall vacation without adding a rider to  my life insurance policy.

The first rule of thumb on pricing on Solo Vacations Travel: It’s always about supply and demand. The best strategies? Demand goes way down when rumors of bad weather are plentiful. In reality, these dire predictions are not necessarily accurate. Secondly, back to school reduces demand since many parents and families are not going on vacation then. You will find fewer crowds and more bargaining power. Here are 6 of my strategies...

Solo Travel Destination

Solo Travel Destination-Alaska in Winter. For many solos, you plan the next trip in winter to bask in the sun or stroll miles of palm covered beaches. However, for adventure travel, the wintry months bring up a

host of other options. From heli-skiing to mushing your way dog sledding through ice and snow, there are endless ways to go. I once had a sojourn to Siberia in January. Not everyone was looking to go there then. En route at passport control in Moscow, I saw a long line for “citizens” while my co-worker and I were the only ones at the line for foreigners!

Although I had also been through Antarctica Chile in their winter, I had only seen Alaska in the summer. When I received an inquiry from one of our solo travelers as to winter trips there, especially to...

Solo Travel Coffee

Solo Travel Coffee Ideas For  Enthusiasts, a Guest Post by Jane Roberts: Coffee is one of the best loved beverages in the entire world, and over 400 million cups are consumed yearly by people all over the globe. Not only is it a drink that can revive you in the morning, but it’s also an effective social lubricant, as it helps people feel more at home at events and gatherings.

Solo Travel Coffee explains the presence of coffee shops in metropolitan areas and popular destinations as coffee culture has spread all over the world. Some Solo Travel Coffee have even made it a point to travel to coffee-centric places as they search for the best and most unusual brews...