Meeting Other People When Traveling Solo

Meeting Other People When Traveling Solo - as part of the expert series by GeoBeats. Traveling alone, you actually meet more people than you do when you are traveling with someone else. Just think about it, when you are traveling with someone else, you are talking like this. When you are by yourself, you are faced out at the world. You are open to that world and that world consequently is open to you. People really do embrace the solo traveler. So how do you meet them? Well, first off, your smile. Your smile is the passport to many situations, and it could be a smile at someone's child. It can be a smile at the dessert that someone is going to eat. It could be a smile at anything, but that smile it opens a lot of doors. Also, you need to plan about how you travel. So, if you go to a hotel, you are much less likely to meet someone than if you go to a B and B or a hostel, where they have a communal breakfast. And you are going to be sitting down and having breakfast with strangers. So, where you stay makes a difference. How you spend your day? If you join a small group, it might be a museum tour. It might be a bike tour. It might be anything. But if you join a group, then you are automatically within a group and you will be meeting people. It could be a cooking class, even that would be a really good one. Of course, there are the evenings. What to do in the evenings. Pubs are a great thing for evenings. Local pubs — small local pubs, and you will meet locals there. And again, it is at the bar or it is at a table, where there is a bank of benches and usually it is an L-bank. Sit at the short side of the L and you will see a lot more people. And you will command a lot more attention and get to meet the people as well.