#60-plus

Solo at 60, finally: an honest guide to your first solo trip in Southern Europe

You spent your life traveling with someone. Husband, children, sister, college friends. Now you're alone, through widowhood, late divorce, grown children, or simply because no one else wanted to go. And you're going. This text is for the woman between 60 and 75 who will take her first solo international trip and is afraid of the wrong things. It's not Lisbon that will break you. It's the feeling of dining alone on a Tuesday at 9pm with no one to show the photo to. Here's how Lisbon, Barcelona and Florence organize themselves to welcome you, where to sleep so you don't wake up isolated, where to walk without suffering the climb, where to make friends outside an app, and why TripAdvisor doesn't work for this age bracket.

Curadoria Voyspark · May 15