Holiday on my own?

Hello @easy   Pleased to meet you welcome.

Sorry what has happened.  In answer to your question. I would have a look on line.  For holidays.   I know there are companies out on line. Type in Holidays for disabled and there are all sorts.

Understand and know I have done this recently.  For a community member who is a friend.  I would consider very carefully going on your own.  My opinion.  It is a dangerous world out there.  Thinking of your safety.

Have you also considered may I ask speaking to AGE UK. I know they offer a range of services and information. You know you are young at heart but I have contacted them myself. Also very helpful. I am early fifties, yet I thought accept members sixty. No apparently not so. Depends on area.

Also one other suggestion. Do volunteering. That is an idea could meet other people like yourself.

Have a look on line, council websites. Often councils have volunteer bureaus that set up by council offer a range of volunteer roles.

When we talk about volunteering could be anything like what ever you wish. They all often matched up to what you can able to do.  Life experiences, knowledge.  Have a look.

Speak to SCOPE helpline. Always needed volunteers .Shops and other roles.

0808 800 3333.

Hope that helps.

Take care. Pleasure to meet you

@thespiceman

Hello @easy thank you for post and kind words.

We are here if you need or wish to ask about anything. 

I am sure there are members of our community will advise you on holidays and travel.

Take care

@thespiceman

Hi @easy so sorry to hear about your loss xxxx i went away about three years ago on my own first time ever after lossing my son went to colchester  for few days for remembrance sunday book up in a hotel  you are more safe in a hotel , your room can be on ground floor but you must say thats what you would like as can not go up stairs  , people talk to you , had a nice time even on my own  xx

I've happily set off, nothing booked, with only a walking frame or crutches for company.  It just makes more of an adventure.  As you say, plenty do, and once you try you will love it.  You are not 100 per cent safe in your own high street, but when away, alone, you will be more alert, so possibly safer. 

 E.g. a friend strolls round with a handbag, but would be safer hiding things around her person, with maybe a small sum in local currency and a uk fiver, perhaps, left in her pocket for eyes to watch, as she pays for things, so a pickpocket thinks there is something, but not much worth stealing.

There was, maybe still is, a site called lonely planet.  No doubt other sites have handy hints.

For company and interest, I would choose a backpack hostel, where available, rather than a hotel.   In fact, if I could, I would live in one, esp in Australia or Germany.  

You turn being alone into an asset, because you are no threat to anyone, so everyone will talk to you. I've been invited to stay in people's homes.  I just don't think people would treat a couple the same way.

However as you say, and as others suggest, maybe one modest step at a time!

By the way, I went on a cruise (with a partner at the time) which was not disabled friendly, nor friendly.  They had a horrid system of ordering you to go to the dining room,  eat what you are told, when you are told, and at the table you are told, with no hope of changing the company, for the entire 'prison sentence' of the cruise. 

There was a help yourself buffet, daytime and poolside, which was much better, so you could choose what you want when you want, but you had to fight to carry your plate with crutches on a moving ship,  in the virtually non existent hope of a  poolside chair to eat. Plus, the ship lift only went to the dining room. Cripples were unwelcome at the pool, as made clear by the fact they had to climb a long ladder to get there.