What a great article Cat! I agree with everything you've said. I'm planning on travelling on my own again next trip. When things go awry, Ive only got myself to blame. Also I love planning where I'm going to stay. I stay in hostels but always in my own room. I rarely have my own bathroom! But it's worth sharing a bathroom because it's so much cheaper than a hotel and so much more fun. No one's going to talk to you at breakfast in a posh hotel, but at breakfast in a hostel, you're going to meet people and be running into them everywhere you go.