Hi, this is Women Who Travel, a podcast from Condé Nas Traveler.

I'm Lale Aricoglu, and with me, as always, is my co-host Meredith Carey.

Hello.

And this episode, we're joined by British writer Dolly Alderton, co-host of the hit UK podcast, The Highlo,

and author of the award-winning memoir, Everything I Know About

Love, which is finally published in the US this month. Hello Dolly. Hello, I really appreciate

the use of finally there. Thank you. How long at this point has it been out in the UK? So it was

published in Hardback in February 2018 the I wrote it when I was 28 and I'm now 31 which doesn't

sound like a long time but it does feel like it's been quite weird doing press for it here and

talking about it here because I'm writing my second book

now, I'm writing a novel and I feel like there was a period of my life where I was just basically

a professional quote giver about my own memoir. That's kind of what like the whole publicity thing

is like and I hadn't anticipated just quite how relentless it could be

and I kind of felt like oh now that period of my life is over having not just talking about the book

but talking about that whole period of my life like just chewing over endlessly like things I did

or didn't do in 2012 in a pub it's just like finally I don't have to talk

about that anymore as part of my job and it's weird now talking about it again because going

back and reading it I'm just like who is that mad woman that wrote that book even though it was

only three years ago but 2831 it does feel like two different people and so the book chronicles

your 20s yeah from the very start to the very end of them and there's a great thank you for reminding me

well you know what we're the same age so you know are you we're going to have to go into this together

how did you feel about turning 30 um you know what know what? I struggled more with 29. Yeah. I cried in the shower on my 29th birthday and then I got to my 30th and just got atrociously trunk and it was fine. Why do millennials have this bad name for themselves as being oversensitive and self-obsessed crying in the shower on the morning of your 29th birthday, totally normal. It was absolutely fine. I'd taken the day off from work. I'd had all these plans. Then I was just bawling alone. Yeah, I found it all very, yeah. But then you just had relief when you got to 30. Yeah, it was fine. It sort of felt like ripping off a plaster. And then I just turned 31. It was fine fine I feel totally chill about being 31 actually

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