Solo travel is a very peculiar thing. It’s like the adventure doesn’t even lie in the activities that you engage in. It’s breakfast with strangers, or the time you went into a weird association club with a Portuguese Angolan guy and had to sign for secrecy while you watched 10 DJ’s that had never met make music in a room at the bottom of a spiral stairway while all you could think about was the blisters on your feet from walking the lumpy, narrow streets of Lisbon. But the re

I sat up in bed abruptly, staring into the darkness, craving a cigarette and considering my current situation. Never could I have foreseen being in this company in this country. Never, ever. I was sharing a bed with a Danish Somalian guy who worked in political affairs at the United Nations and a Danish German biochemist chick. We had all met the night before and ended up having a wild, drawn out party together that began at a food festival and ended up with all three of us j