Washington Post Article: How Old is Too Old to Stay at a Youth Hostel?

To try and quell my bad case of travel revenge, this summer I took a solo trip to Luxembourg and stayed in a youth hostel to make the trip possible. I wrote about it for The Washington Post’s Travel Section.

I wanted revenge any way I could get it. Not traditional retribution per se, but pandemic-style travel vengeance. My travel dreams ground to dust over the past two years, I wanted to see a little bit more of the world, as if I could make up for lost time.

My husband and I agreed that I would take a solo trip while he took our 5-year-old to his grandparents’ house in southwest France. With all the expenses involved in flying from our home in Beirut to visit my husband’s family in France, I needed to find somewhere hassle-free and inexpensive to explore.

Read the full article here or view the PDF.