Travels of Shepp

To start the blog off I wanted to take a look back on the trip that really made me fall in love with solo backpacker travel- a long weekend in Rome last June. This trip was a somewhat spontaneous decision. The stress of just finishing my second year of uni meant I was desperate to get away, and the appeal of cheap Easyjet flights at that time of year were too much to resist. I booked flights and a hostel a month before the trip for a couple of hundred quid.   I had originally planned to do a big European interrail trip at the end of uni, so Rome was to give myself a little taste of solo backpacking around a European city. But what I learned about myself in Rome gave me much bigger ideas. Getting on that plane all by myself was the most exciting thing in the world. I was relying on no one else but myself, meaning the trip was completely mine. When I got there, I could go at my own pace, and do exactly what I wanted in exactly the order I wanted to do it in. That freedo...

Hi! My name’s Charlie Sheppard (Shepp for short) and I LOVE travel. Solo backpacker travel in particular. I love the excitement of planning for a trip, going to places I’ve never been before, meeting new people, and making some memories! I wanted to start this blog as a way of documenting my journeys and hopefully it will be of interest along the way. With the modest experience I have, I do also have some good tips to share with the world! I’ll be writing about past trips abroad, any day trips around the UK I might be going on in the next few months, and most importantly I have ideas for a big solo trip to Australia in January 2020! I’d like to give a shout out and huge thanks to my great friend Daisy for allowing me the space to write a guest piece for her blog, which inspired me to create my own blog. Check out Daisy’s blog called The Time Traveler’s Daughter  here   Don't forget to check out my travel instagram  @travelsofshepp I am...