Breaking Bad road trips
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sessions. The price of £670 includes accommodation, lessons, meals and transfers, but not flights. See golearnto.com.
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Of course you do not have to travel with a mob of singles if you do not want to.
Several tour operators offer group departures that are popular with singles, but with couples on the trip, too. Usually there will be single supplements to pay, unless you are prepared to share with other single travellers.
ARENA RAIL HOLIDAYS offers train-based holidays in Europe, where the emphasis is on being active, with guided walks included in each itinerary and IF you miss Breaking Bad, head to Albuquerque for an RV experience that brings g the show to life with a thre three-hour film-location tour. G Guests in New Mexico’s l largest city will ride in an R RV just like the one in the h hit drama and check out single sin supplements of just 15 per cent. Its Walking the Rhine Valley itinerary combines co guided walks through the Rhineland Rh hills and along the banks of the th river with trips aboard two heritage he railways. It is priced at £915pp, £9 with departures in April and October. Oc See arenarailholidays.co.uk. GET ACTIVE Operator Exodus, while not running dedicated solos trips, says that 40 per cent of its travellers are single.
Typically popular with solos is its Mountains and Villages holiday on Evia, close to Athens hens yet worlds away, with old stone paths hs connecting quaint villages tucked away in the mountains.
This walkers’ paradise offers
Roman quarries, aqueducts and
Byzantine churches, and in summer there are plenty of opportunities for swimming, while waterfront Jesse’s house, Los Pollos Hermanos and the infamous car wash.
Tickets are from £62pp, including a meal and drink at Los Pollos Hermanos or Blake’s Lotaburger.
See breakingbadrvtours.com. ouzo-meze shops make for some delightful eating and drinking.
A seven-night trip, with a group leader and between four and six hours walking per day, many meals, and return flights, costs from £1,099. See exodus.co.uk.
EXOTIC MADE EASY A destination such as Vietnam can be intimidating for a single traveller on a budget. So Tucan Travel, designated best singles holiday company in the 2018 British Travel Awards, is an inexpensive compromise.
You need to g get yourself to the destination, but once there you join a group tour such as the 15-day Vietnam Experience, whic which runs all the way from Hanoi to Ho Chi Minh, and includes overnight on a sleeper train and a junkboat in Ha Halong Bay, for from £717, plus a lo local payment of £110.
Flights, of course, are extra. See tuc tucantravel.com. Llufthansafth Upcyclinguli Collection C ll i From £22 worldshop.eu