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Welcome to my travel blog, your honest guide to solo female adventures around the globe!

Silvia Moggia - A woman travelling solo at Machu Picchu, Peru

Silvia’s Trips is a travel blog about going slowly, independently and honestly.

I am Silvia Moggia, based in Levanto, Liguria, and I write about Italy, Europe, Asia, the Americas and Africa, from horseback and on foot, by train and by sail. Everything here is based on direct experience.

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Solo Female Travel

Travelling alone as a woman, after 40 and on your own terms. Why, how to stay safe, and where to start.

Independent Travel

My method for planning a trip thoroughly, precisely so you stay free to improvise once you land.

Horse-Riding Holidays

Riding trips across four continents, from Andalusia to Arizona to Arctic Lapland.

Sailing

Life under sail, from the Italian Riviera to the Canaries, by a licensed skipper.

The Cinque Terre & Liguria

My home. Where to walk, sleep, eat and taste, from someone who lives here and runs a hotel.

The North: Lapland, Norway & the Arctic

Winter journeys, husky safaris and 47 days the length of Norway, mostly by public transport.

Reading Cities

The bookshops of Paris and literary London, for travellers who read.

Responsible & Sustainable Travel

Why overtourism is a housing problem, and what travelling honestly really means.

Paris is always a good idea

Rows of vines climbing the hillside at the Clos Montmartre vineyard below the Sacré-Cœur in Paris
Paris

Clos Montmartre: The Hidden Vineyard on Paris’s Most Famous Hill

I still remember the first time I walked along the rue des Saules and stopped, genuinely startled. There, climbing the hillside in the middle of…
A Paris metro entrance
Paris

Getting Around Paris: The Public Transport Guide (Updated)

Let me say the important thing first: the real beauty of Paris is on the street, in the shifting architecture, the doorways that open onto…
The famous Shakespeare and Company bookshop on the Left Bank
Paris

The Best Bookshops in Paris, to Feel a Little Parisian

Paris bookshops are not official tourist attractions. To me they are something better: small shelters scattered across the city, timeless places that tell the story…

Horse-riding trips

drinking and eating on horseback in El Rócio
Horse Riding Holidays

Horse-Riding Holidays: A Lifelong Passion, Now a Way to See the World

My first passion, before travel, before opera, before any of it, was horses. Some people who know me have called it less a passion than…
Riding a Finnhorse through the forests of Oulanka National Park, Finnish Lapland
Horse Riding Holidays

Finnish Lapland on Horseback: Eleven Days on the Bear Trail

The national parks of Finnish Lapland are the ideal place to escape the world, and a few years ago I badly needed to. I wanted…
Horses on the sandy main street of El Rocío in front of the white Hermitage
Horse Riding Holidays

El Rocío: A Different Andalusia, Where Horses Come First

El Rocío is different. It is a small parallel world in the heart of Andalusia, and I love it deeply. I put off writing this…
5 Unforgettable Horse-Riding & Ranch Holidays
Horse Riding Holidays

Saddle Up: 5 Unforgettable Horse-Riding & Ranch Holidays (Tried-and-True, Season-Smart Picks)

If you’re itching for crisp air, big skies and that happy ache you only get after hours in the saddle, these five riding breaks are…

Travel Tips & more

Planning an independent trip with a laptop, a notebook and a paper map
Travel Tips & more

Why Every AI Travel Planner Picks a Different “Best” Hotel (and How to Use Them Anyway)

Ask five AI tools the same simple travel question, and you will get five different answers. That is not a hunch: it is one of…
A quiet Cinque Terre village in the soft light of the shoulder season, before the day-trippers arrive
Travel Tips & more

How Not to Love a Place to Death: A Traveller’s Guide to Overtourism

Back in 2017, the writer Tom Vanderbilt published a piece in Outside with a question for a title: did Airbnb kill the mountain town? He…
Using a Holafly eSIM in snowy Sapporo, Japan
Travel Tips & more

An Honest Holafly Review, From a Traveller Who Actually Uses It

A quick note before we start: this review is written in partnership with Holafly, so it is sponsored content and includes my affiliate link. That…

My guidebook

Guide di viaggio on the road: il nord-ovest dell'Argentina

My guidebook on North-West Argentina. A 15-day, several-time-tested itinerary, with detailed info and tips.

Silvia’s Trips

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