Travel Ebooks for Solo Travellers Over 50
Practical guidance, honest experience and quieter ways to explore the world confidently.
Discover a growing collection of practical ebooks from The Road to Timbuktu, created for mature solo travellers, particularly those preparing for their first independent adventure.
Each guide combines straightforward advice, personal experience and useful resources without pretending that travelling alone requires limitless confidence or an alarming number of convertible trousers. Select an ebook to learn more and purchase your copy directly on Amazon.
Going It Alone After 50
A Practical Guide for First-Time Solo Travellers
Thinking about travelling alone but unsure whether you are quite ready?
Going It Alone After 50 is a reassuring, practical guide for anyone considering their first solo adventure later in life. It was written for travellers who want honest advice without being told to become fearless, reinvent themselves or purchase trousers containing seventeen secret pockets.
Drawing on my experience of visiting more than 90 countries, including 62 travelled solo, the guide takes you through the entire journey, from choosing a manageable first destination to arriving home and wondering why you waited so long.
Inside this 51-page illustrated ebook, you will discover:
- How to manage the fear of travelling alone
- How to choose the right first destination
- Simple ways to research and book your journey
- What to pack without preparing for every known climate
- How to plan a calm and manageable first day
- Advice for airports, accommodation, transport and dining alone
- Practical safety and communication guidance
- What to do when plans go wrong
- A useful pre-departure checklist
- Clickable travel resources and further reading
This is not a guide about becoming a different person. It is about travelling confidently as the person you already are, quietly, thoughtfully and at your own pace.
Format: Kindle eBook
Length: 53 pages
Delivery: Instant Kindle download
Price: £2.99 (approx. US$4.04)
ASIN: B0HF5JMSN6
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Wander Solo. Wander Free.
Bangkok: Temples, Traffic & The Terrifying Prospect of Small Talk
Book One of Observations of an Introvert Abroad
Have you ever wondered what happens when a committed introvert decides, repeatedly and against all better judgement, to travel entirely alone through one of the loudest cities on Earth?
Bangkok: Temples, Traffic & The Terrifying Prospect of Small Talk is the first book in a new series I am calling Observations of an Introvert Abroad, and it began, as most of my better ideas do, from years of quietly resenting how much travel writing assumes you are the sort of person who enjoys being spoken to. This is not a guidebook. It will not tell you the best rooftop bar or the fastest route to the Grand Palace. It is an account, drawn from a decade of separate visits, of what it actually feels like to negotiate a city that has never once lowered its voice for anyone, least of all me.
Drawing on more than ninety countries visited, sixty-two of them entirely alone, the book follows one anxious, occasionally lost Englishman in his fifties as he works out how Bangkok’s geography actually functions, negotiates its trains, boats and tuk-tuks (plus one unfortunate wrong airport), and is rescued, more than once, by the kindness of people who owed him nothing.
Across thirteen chapters, you will accompany me as I:
- Arrive in Bangkok and discover the gap between the postcard and the pavement
- Wrestle with the city’s geography, and eventually lose gracefully
- Negotiate the local trains, boats and tuk-tuks, plus one unfortunate wrong airport
- Argue quietly with a hotel room over where I am meant to be sleeping
- Eat alone, repeatedly, without apologising for it
- Get gloriously and repeatedly lost
- Visit the one thing everyone insists you absolutely must see
- Find where the city actually lives, once the guidebooks stop talking
- Confront the terrifying prospect of small talk with a total stranger
- Watch Bangkok from six different quiet places above the noise
- Discover what passes for nightlife when I would rather be in bed
- Receive one small, entirely undeserved kindness
- Leave Bangkok, and work out what I will actually remember
This is not a book about becoming braver, louder or more spontaneous. It is about travelling somewhere genuinely overwhelming, entirely alone, in your fifties, anxious the whole way through, and going anyway.
Format: Kindle eBook
Length: 99 pages
Delivery: Instant Kindle download
Price: £2.95 (approx. US$3.99)
ASIN: B0HFD1V2CV
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I went to Bangkok. Things happened. I noticed things. Unfortunately, I wrote them down.
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