Travel in your 30s and 40s isn’t one thing anymore. It’s not about doing it all or doing it the same way you used to. It’s about choosing what actually fits your life now. Sometimes it’s a family trip, sometimes it’s a girls’ weekend that finally makes it out of the group chat, sometimes it’s going solo because you don’t want to wait around. And sometimes it’s just needing a proper break. This is about the different types of trips we take now and why they all have a place.

Do you ever open your laptop, look at your calendar and see a meeting sitting there that not that long ago you’d have been pushing to be in the room for… and now your first thought is just, I have to go to that. It got me thinking about how different I feel about things now compared to a few years ago. 30-year-old me was first in and last out of the office. I wanted the title, the progression, to be invited into the rooms where I thought things were happening. It all really

Who Our Trips Are Actually For - People ask us this constantly, usually trying to work out if they'll be the odd one out, and I get it - there's something nerve-wracking about signing up for a week away with strangers when you have no idea who those strangers will be. The short answer is you won't be the odd one out, but the longer answer is worth unpacking because there are definite patterns in who books, and understanding those patterns might help you work out if this is yo

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