Solo female travel, honestly — what nobody puts in the caption

The lonely evenings, the pickpocket in Lisbon, the family in Kandy who invited me for dinner. All of it.

Solo travel is the best thing I've ever done and it is also, sometimes, quite lonely. Both things are true. If somebody tells you otherwise they're selling you something.\n\nHere's what I wish somebody had told me before I booked the first one-way flight.