Talefeathers: The Latitude 35 Blog

After my first-ever group tour in Vietnam with G Adventures, I was curious how another tour company would compare. So this summer I booked Collette’s Majestic Cities of Central & Eastern Europe: Berlin, Prague, Vienna, Budapest and Krakow, with quick stops in Dresden, Bratislava and Slovakia’s Low Tatras along the way. Here’s what it’s like to travel with Collette: the group, the guides, the food, the pace and who I think it’s best for. Berlin Wall and memorial, Gedenkstätte

I've always been a solo, DIY traveler at heart, so signing up for a week of group travel with total strangers filled me with both excitement and trepidation. Here's what I learned. Ha Long Bay, Vietnam (Unsplash) A Quick Primer on G Adventures I recently returned from my very first group tour, which was to Vietnam (Hanoi, Ha Long Bay & Hoi An, and Saigon & the Mekong) with G Adventures. G Adventures is a Canadian small-group adventure travel company running trips since 1990,

The benefits of traveling independently are incredibly rewarding. You can do it, too! Even other women in the travel industry are surprised to hear that I do most of my traveling alone. But to me, it makes the most sense: If I had to wait for a friend to be available and have money and a desire to go to the same place at the same time as me, I'd never be able to go anywhere. So I go solo. For many people, the idea of traveling solo conjures sad images of empty restaurant tab