by Shikha Gautam | Solo Travel, Wellness Lifestyle
I have been eating alone for years now; a decade or a couple of years more perhaps. While eating alone at home, all snuggled up, does not count and neither does my won’t-go-out routine in Delhi, all the eating alone time on my trips makes up for it.
by Shikha Gautam | Solo Travel
If you have been following me on my journeys, you would know for how long I have been travelling. So much so that my career trajectory is pretty much shaped by them. Six years of work, followed by a sabbatical for travelling, followed by a full-time job again to fund...
by Shikha Gautam | India, Inspiration, Solo Travel
This one did not dawn on me till the day Mum asked why I keep going to that specific beach in Goa every year, on my birthday. Perhaps, like most parents, she was keen that I get value for my travel money by getting to newer places rather than landing at the same...
by Shikha Gautam | Scribblings, Solo Travel
There is hardly any difference between solo travelling and otherwise. Or, well, there actually is. While I am quite good at travelling with people, also goats and sheep (true story), there is nothing as calming as a solo trip. Calming even if you take away the cool quotient that people usually associate it with.
by Shikha Gautam | Solo Travel, The Blog
Doesn’t solo travelling sound like a great, inspiring movie and solo travellers the perfect heroes? Well, thank you people, but this post is about busting the myths about solo travelling. We are not the heroes, we are just lovers – so ardently and...
by Shikha Gautam | India, Solo Travel, Travel Photography, Years Review
The Time of Our (My) Lives & Some Cuss Words! Oh my, 2014 was awesome! Much more than 2013. Went tripping around 7 Indian states (one of them thrice) and 27 cities where I’ve never been to (two of them twice), tried a lot of interesting cuisines (including...
