Field notes

What we learn on the ground, written down. New notes land in the newsletter first.

Solo travel · 5 min read

The first dinner alone is the whole trip

Every first-time solo traveller names the same fear. Here is what actually happens, and the one script that makes it easy.

Behind Sola · 6 min read

How we vet a retreat before it earns the Solo Standard

Seven checks every route passes before we sell a single place, and the red flags that end the conversation.

Practical · 6 min read

What a week away actually costs, country by country

Benchmark daily prices for retreats across ten countries, and how to read a price that looks too good.

Practical · 5 min read

How to choose your first solo retreat without drowning in tabs

Forty open tabs, three spreadsheets, zero bookings. Here is the sixty-second method we use instead.