Siteseeing: E-zine ends lonely days

Lonely solo travellers can use the Internet to help find a travelling partner. The advantages, apart from sharing experiences, include having someone to keep an eye on you and your luggage. And hotel rates in almost every country in the world are usually as cheap for two as for one.

Travel e-zines or online magazines are an excellent source of personal accounts of a country's situation.

One such is Journey Woman, an online quarterly travel magazine which hosts pages of tips for apprehensive travellers.

Another, the Rough Guides Internet site, currently hosts 290 listings on their travel bulletin board for people appealing for travelling companions.

Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel Magazine has heaps of travel information for mature and young single travellers and advertises companion-matching companies. The Herald has a Travel Match section in Saturday's Connexions column.

If you still end up by yourself, there are advantages - travelling at your own pace and making spontaneous changes. A person on their own is far more approachable than a groups or even a couple Many lifetime friendships have begun in this way - and many a romance.

Links:

Journey Woman

Rough Guides

Arthur Frommer's Budget Travel Magazine