At the risk of sounding like every other travel blogger on the internet, solo travel is a rewarding and amazing experience that everyone who is able to should undertake. Unlike other bloggers, I don't want to bore you with all my tips and tricks to make sure you are safe on your trip, particularly as a solo female traveller, as frankly, I don't really stick to those 'rules' myself. Instead, I want to share the sometimes purely selfish and stupid reasons I travel alone.

1. No one can judge you: 

As a solo traveller, every choice you make is your's alone. There is no need to please that friend that wants to line up for 2 hours to get up to the top of the Effiel Tower nor to hang around at a crappy bar just because the drinks are cheap. This lonesomeness also means that no one can judge you for your decisions. Want to finish that whole bottle of wine to yourself over lunch at a cute cafe? Do it. Feel like eating crappy junk food and sleeping in until midday? Do it. No matter how 'bad' you believe your decision to be there will be no one around except strangers who live 1000 of kilometres of away from your home to judge you. 

2. You make some amazing and sometimes crazy new friends: 

Even you if are an introverted mess of anxiety at home, the complete isolation from everyone you know that travelling alone brings is pretty much guaranteed to push you out of your comfort zone and make you at least slightly more social. This new and hopefully more relaxed version of you is (hopefully) more opened to meeting new people particularly those that you wouldn't typically want to associate with at home. Basically holiday you = a more relaxed and socially tolerant you.

3. You learn to deal with your own and others stuff ups : 

The above-mentioned isolation from your loved ones or really anymore who kinda knows you like your barista means you are forced to take complete responsibility for your own mistakes and deal calmly with the consequences while also learning to fully deal with stuff ups completely out of your own control without a true and physical support network.

4. You get a real chance to interact with locals:

From personal experience, locals are pretty much always a little fascinated by a foreign travelling through their country sans tour group and by themselves which means that are usually super open to showing solo travellers around and giving them the best tips and tricks.