Re your article on travelling alone (‘It’s all about stepping out of your comfort zone’: 10 tips for solo travellers, 28 January), I was surprised to see that nine out of 10 tips for travelling alone were about how not to be alone. I would like to share two different types of tips. First, if you’re not used to going to restaurants on your own and you feel self-conscious walking in, get there early. This helps, especially in the evening when eating out is so much a social thing, as you don’t have to step into the busyness, but the busyness builds around you.
Second (and for me this is what it’s all about), revel in the freedom and independence, rejoice that each choice is yours alone – turn right over the bridge, or left? Museum, no museum? Coffee now, or later? Delight in the wonderful gift you have given yourself.
Miranda Armstrong
Bath
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