Fly Solo: The 50 Best Places On Earth For a Girl to Travel Alone [Mass Market Paperback]

Teresa Rodriguez Williamson (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: February 6, 2007

There's a whole big world out there. Here's how every woman can get out and conquer it-solo.

This is an inspiring guide for women who want to "fly solo"-yet stay safe, sane, and solvent during their travels. With candid advice and insider's secrets about some of the most exciting places on earth, readers will find:

- A quiz to help determine what sorts of trips best suit one's personality, interests, and goals
- The essential female-friendly spots every woman should visit
- Why each destination is perfect for solo travelers, important foreign phrases, what to pack, what shoes to wear, special events, historical facts, where to meet the global glitterati, and a list of the top ten things women must do while visiting
- Where to eat, meet, party, people watch, sunbathe, soul-search, shop, spa, frolic, photograph, and more<

Whether surfing in Hawaii, strolling the cobblestone streets of St. Petersburg, drinking in Dublin, or swimming with dolphins in the Caribbean, women can take on the world and create lasting memories with the best travel companion ever- themselves!

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly

In her first book, TangoDiva.com founder Williamson uses 10 criteria-among them safety, transportation and friendliness-to determine a list of destinations for adventurous women, then provides the skinny on each. But before delving into her exceedingly thorough chick-trip dispatches, Williamson provides an incisive quiz to help readers determine the best trip for them. Dozens of global hot spots are profiled here, with an especially extensive list of European locations. Rating each of her destinations on four important variables-cultural opportunities, activity level, weather and social interaction-Williamson gives readers a feel for each city; true to her insider's vision, she even dishes out the home phone numbers of American ex-pats willing to offer a home-cooked meal (for a small fee). Other off-the-beaten-track suggestions include trying the Moroccan baths in Paris, and tracking down a bar in Beijing so hip it attracts British DJs-"From Britain!" Even though this easy-to-breeze-through guide offers information on locales as far-flung as Machu Picchu and Tokyo, a number of fun stateside escapes ensures that even "girls" on a limited budget will be ready to lone-wolf it.
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About the Author

Teresa Rodriguez Williamson is the founder of the highly successful online travel magazine, TangoDiva.com, and has been featured in Marie Claire, the Wall Street Journal, and the New York Times.

Product Details

• Reading level: Ages 18 and up
  
• Mass Market Paperback: 368 pages
• Publisher: Perigee Trade (February 6, 2007)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0399533109
• ISBN-13: 978-0399533105
• Product Dimensions: 9.2 x 6.1 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.6 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 3.9 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (16 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #628,985 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
  • #59 in Books > Travel > Specialty Travel > Solo Travel

More About the Author

The Original Tango Diva
Teresa Rodriguez Williamson is the creator and founder of Tango Diva, as well as the author of the upcoming travel guidebook for women, FLY SOLO: The 50 Best Places on Earth For a Girl to Travel Alone (Perigee, Penguin Books).

Through her passion for travel, sense of adventure, and gracious style, Ms. Williamson has gone solo and ventured well beyond common travel routes for experiences such as piloting planes, dancing at Carnival in Rio, riding horseback under the shadows of the great Egyptian pyramids, mastering the flying trapeze, and hiking through the ruins of Macchu Pichu. She shares her travel advice, ideas, and resources with women ready to explore the world and themselves via the web site www.tangodiva.com

Tango Diva acts as a world-wide online network of women who want to share their thoughts and ideas about travel. Tango Diva's online community of thousands of global users solicit Teresa for advice, ideas and travel news. Current Tango Diva web partners include Club Med, Coty Cosmetics and Putumayo Music.

The Women Traveler Advocate and Market Researcher Tango Diva When not traveling around the world, Teresa shares her thoughts and opinions about women and travel with graduate students and corporations ' acting as advocate for women travelers and inspiring new travel services for women.

The Sherpa Guide Tango Diva
Along with her research and marketing recommendations, Ms. Williamson
offers workshops and classes for women in the areas of:

* Self-Branding
* The Art of Self-assurance
* Marketing to Women
* International style and fashion: the right attitude for your latitude

Customer Reviews

Most Helpful Customer Reviews

42 of 44 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Very Basic Information, April 19, 2007

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oceangirl1 "oceangirl" (Los Angeles, CA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fly Solo: The 50 Best Places On Earth For a Girl to Travel Alone (Mass Market Paperback)

The book provides an extremely general overview of 50 destinations. Omitted, (I'm guessing for security reasons ) is all of Africa, India, the truly interesting islands of Polynesia (mentions Waikiki) the entire Caribbean, Australia west of Sydney and Mexico. Standard European capitol cities get the most ink. There is nothing here that could not be found in the first pages of a Let's Go. I was really hoping for a unique insight found nowhere else. It does list a festival or two and several activities for the given city. No hard specifics like maps, embassy addresses, specific lodging, addresses of restaurants esp open to single diners or specific city areas not to venture into after dark. Lists destinations well along the beaten path. If you are a first time traveller tho, this might be a good armchair read.

28 of 29 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars It's OK but this is not a Travel Book, February 8, 2008

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I am an experiences solo women traveller looking for some new places to visit. I was more concerned with safe places for women to travel alone without getting hassled. This woman seemed more concerned about where to party and what kind of shoes we should be wearing. Honestly I am 33 year old traveler and I know to dress and I rather learn more about what are safe areas to travel to, where to stay safely and honestly more about what to see in do. I think the only thing I need from this book is the first page of the locations. The content in the book gave me no help of what do and how to experience the city. I don't think flirting and trying to seduce men and where to shop is experiencing a city. This book was just not a travel book it was a travel story. Its definitely not Rick Steves or Lonely Planet. I was disappointed.

23 of 24 people found the following review helpful:

1.0 out of 5 stars books, January 28, 2008

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single gal (L A CALIFORNIA USA) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Fly Solo: The 50 Best Places On Earth For a Girl to Travel Alone (Mass Market Paperback)

Thought this book would inform me of places that were safe and easy for a single to visit. NOT! It lists cities and just a few details - not very good with that either. Example: be sure to bring your thong - men here don't like pantie lines.