Hello and welcome back to the Get Your Blowback podcast.

I'm joined today by Kate Wills, travel journalist who's written for Vogue, Elle and Grazie.

She's just written a book called A Trip of One's Own, Hope, Heartbreak and Why Travelling Solo Could Change Your Life.

Last but not least, Kate does also

become a new mum during the pandemic. On today's episode, we talk all about Kate's amazing book.

She talks about her experience through divorce and travelling solo around the world.

She talks about becoming a new mom in lockdown. We talk about some of the best

places to travel to. She gives heaps of tips on packing and traveling solo as well as keeping

safe. She is incredibly inspiring women. Her gorgeous daughter Blake does chirp in a little

bit during the recording, but it's very sweet.

So I hope you enjoy this episode. Let's bring on the amazing Kate Wells.

Welcome Kate to the podcast.

Thank you so much for having me.

It's my absolute pleasure. I wanted to start off by saying congratulations. You have a little baby.

You had a pandemic baby. I did, yes. Pandemic baby and pandemic book.

Which often people say a book is like a baby. So you kind of had a double whammy. You had twins.

A book bit longer and was maybe more painful.

What's it like, you know, having a child in a pandemic? I'm sure it's been amazing because

you have a lot of quality time together, but also difficult not having maybe parental support or other things like that.

Tell me a little bit about your experience.

Yeah, it's a funny one actually because I was pregnant during the first lockdown.

And I actually kind of experienced quite a lot of the things that I'd been told to expect from being a new mum, really, because it really just felt like

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