Traveling solo means getting to know the real you.

Norway

It happened during the summer of 2016, I was 22 years old. I just came back from an opera project in the Bavarian Alps. And I had this feeling that I need to go somewhere else soon. So I booked flight tickets to Bergen, they were really cheap – approximately 50eur for both ways. I thought that Norway would be a safe choice for the first-time female solo trip. I wasn’t nervous or had doubts about going alone, actually, I felt pretty good.

At Airbnb, I booked a room with a kitchen and shared bathroom. When I went there it looked much nicer than in pictures. I had this roof-top room with an amazing view of Fjords. If you wonder about this shared bathroom thing, it was totally okay, because there were just 4 rooms and the first days I was alone there. Every evening before going to sleep I watched “Friends”.

If you never go, you will never know.

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When you are traveling totally alone you just realize that you can truly do everything by yourself. And of course, you also start to talk with yourself – but that is okay! I went hiking there, just looked around the city (which is really nice), and went for the Fjord cruise. That was the highlight of my trip! I hopped on some pretty big boat and went for a 6-hour cruise. We stopped on the shore which actually was a city – there lived approximately 40-50 people. At the next stop, we took some cold spring water that came down from the cliff. During this cruise on the boat sounded Edvard Grieg (Norwegian classical composer).

I always had this connection with Norway – since school time I loved Henrik Ibsen and Edvard Grieg’s violin sonata is one of the most delightful pieces!