General Travel

I would be interested to see if anyone on Silversurfers has been to Corsica. Some friends went a few years ago and raved about it.

Many of our members have expressed an interest in finding a travel companion ... this is the place where you can get together, compare notes and see if there is a like minded, compatible travel companion our there looking for you too!

Hi I had a heart attack last year and I have recovered pretty well. I am thinking about a few days in Spain or Italy in October Does anyone know how this will affect my insurance cost? TIA

Hey potential travel buddies just making a simple suggestion as single, lonely, honest people it will be great to get together and travel as a newly formed friends group. Anyone interested? Let's Chat.

Can anyone recommend any company offering deals in business class on Singapore airlines to Australia.

Has anyone traveled from the States to the above subject matter? Thank you!

Hi, I'm thinking of using this company, do any of you have experience and reviews of them? Thanks

Hi everyone, I'm planning to travel to Mexico with my family in February and I'm looking for some recommendations on places to visit. We are interested in exploring the history of Mexico, as well as enjoying some relaxing time on the beach. We have about two weeks to spend there. We are open to suggestions on where to go, what to see, and what to do. One thing that I'm a bit concerned about is the language barrier. I don't speak any Spanish, and I'm not sure how common English is in Mexico. Will this be a problem for me and my family? How can we communicate with the locals and get around without much hassle? I would appreciate any advice or tips from anyone who has been to Mexico or knows the country well. TIA!

Can anyone recommend travel insurance for a couple of over 70’s with health problems (not major) please.

Hi! I've already made a couple response posts over on travel companions, about an Nile cruise I went on, but wanted to find a place to introduce myself. I'm a dual US-Italian citizen, with 27 EU countries as my own personal playground; though I'm originally from the US, I've lived in the EU for 25 years now (some of those years being as a teen). I lived in Italy as a teenager and, after going back to the US and living there for 25 years, I took off at 44 years old with nothing to my name, no money and just a couple suitcases, to chase a dream of living back in Italy. Over the following 21 years, I continued traveling solo and have so far lived in 10 countries and at least a couple cities in each. No, I'm not some rich retired person! I was an editor by trade, now retired, and still do some editing and proofing to help supplement my crazy passion for travel. Well, and life and putting food on the table and affording rent, etc. LOL Having usually kept a type of blog or notebook, friends told me I needed to put it all together into a book. I told them they were nuts, even though writing is also a passion of mine (as you can tell by the fact that I cannot physicall write short posts!). a few years later, When Every Road Whispers My Name was published :-) I'm now working on a sequel as I chalked up another couple countries after the final chapter. Though I'm usually a solo traveler, I don't mind traveling with a couple others, especially because cruising (yep, another major passion and my absolute preferred mode of travel) is crazy expensive with solo supplements. Very few lines (but thankfully some!) have zero single supplement. Anyway, I'm getting ready to move from Calabria to Puglia (Bari area) in a couple weeks and will settle for the summer and maybe stay a year or so, not sure yet. But it has a port!! And an excellent high-speed train station and a really good airport with local EU flights. I still have so many places on my bucket list! I'll stop talking now :-)