Who’s behind this
I travel alone, on a budget, with as little in my bag as possible. Not because I enjoy roughing it, I’ve just found that travelling light and spending carefully makes the whole experience better. Less stress, more flexibility, no checked baggage fees. You work out quickly that the expensive option is rarely the better one.

Why I built this
I used to spend hours scouring the internet before every trip. Blog after blog, forum after forum, only to get there and find half of it was wrong. Outdated information dressed up as current advice. Glowing write-ups of places that turned out to be a waste of an afternoon.

And don’t get me started on TripAdvisor and Google Maps. 4.7 stars for everything. Every attraction, every restaurant, every unremarkable pile of bricks with a gift shop attached, all apparently world-class. They stopped being useful a long time ago, and most travel blogs followed suit. Everything is worth your time. Everything deserves a visit. Nothing is ever a disappointment.

That’s not helpful. It’s just noise.

What’s different here
This isn’t a site that will tell you everything is worth your time, because it isn’t. These are real places visited by a real person, and some of them are not worth the entry fee, the detour, or the hour you’ll spend queuing. I’ll tell you which ones, straight.

Every post ends with a No BS rating, Rated, Overrated, or Underrated, so you know exactly what you’re getting before you go.

Solo travel doesn’t need a big budget, a detailed plan, or years of experience. The world is far more welcoming than it looks from the outside, and your options, once you start looking, are pretty much boundless.