It may be because I have just watched “Life of Pi”, or because once you go to India, if you loved it, you can hardly get it out of your mind. Anyhow, this week I would like to bring this article to your attention. It is an interesting series of suggestions for women travellers to...

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There are some really interesting travel statistics about women. For example, MaryBeth Bond, the "Gutsy Traveler" and so-called #1 expert on women's travel in the USA, noted on her website that 80% of travel decisions are made by women, regardless of who's traveling, where they're going, and who's paying. "Hard" adventure travelers (of whom there...

As the possessor of two X chromosomes, this means that I am considered by pretty much everybody, myself included, to be a woman. I menstruate, I have a high-pitched voice (as much as I try to convince myself it sounds all nice and low like Marlena Dietrich), and I tend to wear bikinis to the...

Some of you may already be familiar with Elderhostel, the hostelling and alternative travel group geared primarily towards retirees or older travelers. Elderhostel has become Exploritas , explained as a combination of explore + veritas -- meaning truth in travel. This is a message I can get behind. The overly slick website aside, I appreciate...

When I was nineteen, I went to Morocco, by myself. It never occurred to me to go any other way, actually -- I wanted to go, nobody else I knew either wanted to travel or had the means, and I couldn't think of anyone I even *wanted* to go with me. Far from being an...