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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Travel
James Tapper

‘I’ve made friends for life’: Rising number of travellers find going solo is the ticket to happiness

A lone rock climber
Adventure weekends with hiking, canoeing and climbing are popular. Photograph: Adventure Solos

The idea of making proper friends with people you meet on holiday is so hilarious to British sensibilities that Mark Gatiss and Steven Moffat turned it into a West End comedy.

The Unfriend, starring Lee Mack and Sarah Alexander as a British couple who meet Elsa, an American woman travelling solo, is based on the premise that she takes their polite suggestion of a visit as a genuine invitation.

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