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Get a free copy of my Kindle ebook Seven Reasons To Go Travelling Solo – it’s free to download for 24 hours only (8 June 2012)

Today is my 40th birthday. To celebrate the fact I’m not dead yet, I’m giving away my recently published Kindle ebook Seven Reasons To Go Travelling Solo. If you’re interested in travelling alone, you should definitely get hold of it.

Where To Get It
You can get Seven Reasons To Go Travelling Solo for free at Amazon.com or Amazon.co.uk – but only for the next 24 hours. (UPDATE: the giveaway is now over – thanks to everyone who grabbed a copy)

If You’ve Got Time, Please Leave A Review
I hope you find time to download it – and actually read it! And if you want to do something to help me out in return, please leave a review on the Amazon.com page or the Amazon.co.uk page, however brief. That would be hugely appreciated.

But I Don’t Have A Kindle! How Can I Read It?
Remember you don’t need a Kindle device to actually read Kindle books – you can download free software from Amazon to read Kindle books on your PC, Mac, iPad, iPhone, Android device yadda yadda yadda. You can find the free Kindle software on Amazon.co.uk and Amazon.com

If you want more info on what’s in the book, here’s the introduction I wrote to the Seven Reasons To Go Travelling Solo ebook:

“Solo travelling changed my life. I left England in December 2002 to backpack in Australia, thinking I would travel for six months, a year at most. That was 10 years ago. I never went home.

I ended up living in Thailand by accident and continuing to travel extensively across South East Asia, driven by a passion for scuba diving that I only discovered because of travelling. Along the way I created two websites, TravelHappy.info and DiveHappy.com about travelling and diving in Asia respectively. Quite early on I posted an article on TravelHappy called Seven Reasons To Go Travelling Solo. The ongoing response to that article has been huge, sparking hundreds of comments and emails from people wanting to travel alone. This ebook collects and updates the original Seven Reasons essay along with other useful and inspirational articles from TravelHappy to help and reassure those of you who want to travel solo. I’ve also included a previously Solo Travelling FAQ answering the most common solo travel questions posed by readers.

Solo travel may or may not change your life quite so radically as mine (and indeed, you may not want it to). But I can pretty much guarantee it will be a hugely enriching, exciting and enjoyable experience – also possibly aggravating, exhausting and frustrating too. As Kevin Kelly put it, travel is “a jolt to the soul”. You don’t need to travel for months at a time to experience travel’s magical effect – you can pack a lot into a week long trip that might turn out to be a turning point in your life.

You don’t know until you go.”