August 27th - Going solo: how travelling on your own can be a joy more than a challenge – especially for women
Simon Calder's Independent Travel Podcast
The Independent
3.6 • 628 Ratings
🗓️ 27 August 2025
⏱️ 7 minutes
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My guest is travel expert Gilly Bachelor, who is a champion of solo travel for women. Tomorrow (Thursday 28 August) she is organising a special evening aimed at women preparing to go it alone abroad – under the brand "No stopping her".
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| 0:00.0 | And what brings you to Leonardo Hotels today? |
| 0:02.9 | Our son's graduation. |
| 0:04.5 | The company team building day. |
| 0:06.0 | The central location. |
| 0:07.5 | The big match. |
| 0:08.7 | Delicious buffet breakfast. |
| 0:10.2 | The comfy room. |
| 0:11.3 | The dream bed. |
| 0:12.8 | At Leonardo Hotels, if it's important to you, it's important to us. |
| 0:17.3 | Come join us. |
| 0:18.3 | For our best rates, book direct at leonardohotels.com.uk. |
| 0:25.9 | Hello and welcome to today's independent travel podcast with me, Simon Goulders, Wednesday, |
| 0:30.5 | the 27th of August. If you are lucky enough to live in beautiful South Staventshire, perhaps in the Brood area, you will probably |
| 0:39.7 | know my guest today, Ginny Bachelor, travel expert. It's been a great seven years. We've been through |
| 0:46.0 | COVID and now we're talking about the changes in Europe. But one of the big changes we've seen |
| 0:51.2 | is women who want to travel solo. Tomorrow you are hosting an event directed at women who want to travel solo. |
| 0:59.7 | What will you be saying? |
| 1:02.0 | And what we'll be saying? |
| 1:03.0 | Well, actually, we'll be listening because we've got a lot of ladies coming to us because |
| 1:06.9 | some have travelled before and they'll be talking sort of inspirationally about the challenges |
| 1:11.1 | they found. But we've also got quite a few ladies who are recently been widowed and they want to |
| 1:15.8 | start to travel. So we'll be listening to them, hearing their concerns, trying to support them |
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