05 Feb 2013
  • Opinion: Why solo travel is still safe, no matter what happened in Istanbul

    Destinations

    … I was saddened when I heard that Sarai Sierra, a 33-year-old American on her first vacation outside the USA, had been found dead in Istanbul, Turkey — and shocked when I read the subsequent reactions condemning journeys by solo women as naive, misguided or both. The circumstances surrounding the budding photographer’s death, including reports [...]