HOW SOLO TRAVEL IMPACTS MY MENTAL HEALTH
Today is World Mental Health Day, which has prompted me to reflect on how I have been coping mentally since I started my retirement just over a year ago. Having worked for the BBC for thirty years it was interlinked with my sense of identity. Now I am no longer part of that big organisation it has taken me a bit of adjusting to life and finding a sense of purpose and identity that I am comfortable with. And I do think that after a year I am finally getting there. I am more aware of who I am and what I want out of life and what my boundaries are. Already I feel a great sense of achievement because for a longtime I said that I wanted to get rid of most of my things, buy a motorhome and travel Great Britain. This was because, despite travelling the world extensively, I had not really stopped to explore what was on my doorstep. Here I am doing it, I purchased my dream motorhome at www.elitemotors.co.uk and I have only just scratched the surface of places to see in this country and I am