Where would you travel for short trips, on your own?

[Whorty]

That happened to me some years ago.
I was stopped at lights near Oxford Street when a drunk chap got into my car thinking I was a taxi.
"To Archway please buddy"
I thought, what the heck, I'm going in that direction, and I have time to kill, so I drove on a mile or so, eastbound.
20 minutes later I realised I had confused "Archway" and "Kingsway" - and he was no nearer his destination - which is in North London.
I explained we were no nearer where he needed to be, but he was very understanding, saying: "Here's £20 fare for getting me this far".
I didn't have the heart to take it.

That made me chuckle ...

[Whorty]

Virtual walking trip?

You jest ... but get a treadmill. An ANT+ device. Zwift logon. And you can walk/run around London, Richmond VA, Paris, Harrogate and a few other places

[Whorty]

If money is no issue you can always engage a professional traveling companion.

I tend to call her my girlfriend ... not sure she'd be keen to be called a professional

[ChimpMaster]

I tend to call her my girlfriend ... not sure she'd be keen to be called a professional

Happy to see that you've moved on Whorty

[ChimpMaster]

If it's important that you have other people to share the experience with, it's worth looking at organised trips which involve a group.

For example, my daughter and I went on a brilliant trip to Egypt about 10 years ago with a company called Explore (https://www.explore.co.uk/), we were in a group of about 12 people, none of us knew each other at the start but we got to know everyone just by being with them most of the time.

Two of my daughters have also done trips across the southern states of the US with Contiki (https://www.contiki.com/en-gb), you're travelling with a group for a couple of weeks so you get to know them.

Or, as mentioned before, cruises are good because there are chances to meet and chat with people and, if you hit it off, you can arrange to meet up in the daytime or evenings and go ashore together etc; but the ships are usually large enough that if you'd prefer to never talk to that person again, they're fairly easy to avoid


But if all you're looking for is a recommendation for a short break, I can personally recommend off the top of my head Valencia, Seville, Budapest, Prague, Paris, Lisbon, Vienna, Barcelona as having lots of beautiful stuff to see, some great food, and enough to keep most people occupied for at least a long weekend.

Explore looks good, will take a look. Jordan trip (though 8 days) is interesting.

Thanks for the suggestions.