Hostels
Watch this postI have decided to try and have very inexpensive short trips to Europe. To achieve this I am planning to stay in hostels. I realise that the majority of people in hostels will be much younger, I am 61 and female. Does anyone have experience of hosteling as an older person and have you any tips you could give me?
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such a long gap since you first posted your message, if you still look at the
silver surfers site I would be interested to know how you got on sharing a
room in a hostel. I have traveled all through East and Southern Africa and
stayed in many backpackers hostels along the way, always had good times
especially in Cape Town S.Africa, I know that you are now 5 years older but
are you still able to travel, I am now 73 and love to get away from the cold
weather here in the UK so off I go to the Southern Hemisphere, now of
course most African countries have been put back on the red list, so will
have to see what next year will be like.I live on n hope, well if you do by
some chance read this message, give me a shout out, best wishes, Terry.