Last year has not been amazing from the point of view of my salary. This means that I had no possibility to make any travel at all, if not for visiting my family. But now the situation is quite good: I have a budget for travelling and several days of holidays because with support we have no extra money, but a day in lieu per week. And I have an amazing colleague who introduced me to the world of solo tours.

She spoke about a tour operator called STATravel. I contacted them but… you know, bureaucracy in Italy made impossible for me to have a passport, so I have the limitation of Europe. And STATravel had no tour in Europe without the age limit of 30. So… no way.
I found somewhere FlashPack that looks amazing, but they have few things in Europe, and all of them very short. It is also a bit expensive, but I moved very late so that was not a problem.
StaTravel and Intrepid Travel had some offers also in our company perks website, but Intrepid looked very very expensive. Of course there was also Avventure Nel Mondo, but it is an Italian tour agency, and I would prefer to use an UK one to have the possibility to meet people of London or surroundings.

At the end  I chose Tucan Travel, I asked for their brochure and I asked for more information about the tour Tallin to Prague. They replied promptly telling me that the group was the following:

Tallin to Warsaw
* solo female born in the early 70’s
* solo female born in the late 60’s
* male solo born in the late 80’s
* couple born in the early to mid 60’s
* two female travellers born in the late 50’s
* solo female born in the mid 50’s
* solo male born in the mid 90’s
Warsaw to Prague
* solo female born in the mid 60’s
* 3 people travelling together born in the late 80’s
* male solo born in the late 80’s
* female solo born in the mid 50’s
* male solo born in the mid 90’s
I saw many people much older than me and I decided to give up this tour, but I asked for the one called Balkans in two weeks and the response was better:
* solo female born in the late 70’s
* solo female born in the late 70’s
* solo male born in the mid 70’s
* couple, born in the mid 40’s
* two females, born in the mid 70’s & early 80’s.
That looked better, so I booked it. The price is not cheap, 1190 pounds plus a compulsory Local Payment of about 200 euros. Besides that I needed a travel insurance. Again, my colleague told me about two websites for comparing travel insurances: MoneySupermarket and GoCompare. I found the second much better, so I bought an insurance at InsureAndGo. Now I should be ready to go.
The adventure will start the 20th of May. Maybe I should create a page on Patreon…
Stay tuned!
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