Solo travel in your 30s isn't about finding yourself. You already know who you are. Remember your 20s? When everyone was backpacking Southeast Asia, staying in hostels, and talking about "finding themselves" between buckets of cheap cocktails? I don;t know about you, but i'm way past that! Solo travel in your 30s and 40s hits different. And honestly? It's better. You're not traveling to escape your life or figure out who you are. You're traveling because you've built a life y

Somewhere in our thirties and forties, making friends stops being effortless. Life gets full, people move on, and suddenly you’re wondering where your “people” are meant to come from now. What I’ve realised through building It Started With A Trip is this: we’re not bad at making friends - we just rarely get the right environment for it. That’s exactly why we created It Started At The Table: a small, easy space where good conversation and genuine connection finally feel simple

We were told there’s one way to do life: school, job, marriage, mortgage. But what if that’s not your version of happy?   Rebelling Against the “Shoulds” School. University. Job. Relationship. Buy a house. Get married. Have children. That was the story we were told, and for years, I thought it was the only version of success that counted. I can still picture it: a male friend of mine, pint in hand, listing those milestones like a moral checklist, wondering why I always seemed