Traveling Solo: Advice and Ideas for More Than 250 Great Vacations

Travel expert Eleanor Berman shows that you don't always need a traveling companion to have a wonderful time. There are unique pleasures to traveling alone. It's a chance to tailor a vacation strictly to your own tastes, energies, and timetable, to go where you please, do exactly what you want to do, and meet interesting new people of all ages.

This award-winning guide details the exciting possibilities for travel without a companion - vacations as varied as the ages, budgets, and interests of millions of singles, including: European trips for music lovers, wine connoisseurs, and gourmet cooks; work shops in language, photography, and painting; volunteer opportunities for travel while making a contribution to humanity; cruises in the fjords of Norway or on Europe's great rivers; wilderness expeditions in Alaska, Africa, and Nepal; luxurious spas in the deserts of Arizona and the tropics of Mexico; great city tours of New York, San Francisco, and Paris; sports camps for amateur tennis and baseball players who dream of training like the pros.