I too am a hesitant solo traveler, however the trip you are taking is wonderful alone. I went to Belgium and Amsterdam 2 years ago and it was great. Everyone speaks english and if you go and have yourself a great Belgian Beer it is really easy to find yourself talking to someone. his year I went to Italy and Austria and it was a completely diffeerent story.

KiraD, how did you enjoy your solo trip to Amsterdam, Brugge, & Paris? What tricks did you find that did & didn't that solo travel work for you?<BR><BR>Fyi, I posted a year or so ago on another thread on solo travel about the things that make solo travel work best for me. Most of them have already been discussed on this thread, with the exception of: make your solo-ness an advantage rather than a disadvantage by reading up before you go and then tracking down idiosyncratic places that interest *you*. You can organize your time around a hobby (my aunt always tracks down shops that sell folk music and instruments), a historical person or event (I spent three weeks in Ireland tromping happily through early-20th-century Irish political history), whatever. The stranger the spots my interest takes me to, the more that I feel I'm really "in" a place.<BR><BR>I'm planning a future trip to bash around spots in England associated with Richard III. He didn't *really* kill those little princes, y'know.<BR><BR>