There is a famous quote by Freud along the lines of "I have spent years working with them and still have not answered the fundamental question - What Do Women Want?? Being a woman myself, I have spent a considerable amount of time asking myself that same question. Divorce and separatation provide a fresh impetus to ask that question all over again and to change the answer if necessary. Here by the way is where Freud got totally messed up.
We do change our minds, and after being with a man who perhaps defined us a little by what HE wanted - life after divorce can be a liberating and terrifying experience.
I just got back from a 3 week "Great Escape" type trip around the world. It was a trip for charity - 21 days, 22,000 miles, visting Hong Kong, China, India, Egypt, Turkey, Dubai, Czech Republic, Croatia and met so many incredible women. The great fun of the event was that our group didn't know from one day to the next where we were going, and at each destination we had to solve puzzles and scavenges that ranged from a camel ride to the Pyramids to finding a specific kind of turkish delight in a Turkish souk. It was a fabulous way of getting energised and of regaining some of the confidence in my ability as a woman to be resouceful, strong, creative and brave. We left Egypt just a day before bombs exploded in the city center - a constant reminder that 'there but for the grace of God". My travel blog can be viewed at http://travelsite.mytripjournal.com/margaretmanning
I met women traveling from all over the world and found a fantastic article in an Indian newspaper on just the subject of What Women Want. It was saying that the trend of women leaving their families to go on travel tours was increasing in India and that is not just adventurers or singles party, but housewives, divorcees leaving behind their old world and seeking adventure and new experience. They are EXploring!!! In India some hotels are rising to the challenge and establishing women only floors and a houseboat in Kerela's backwater in Alappuzha is run entirely by women and is for women only.
What did they discover?
Women like to travel in groups of 3-5 - sometimes 7
They opt for packages between 4 adn 7 nights
They are interested in ecclectic activities - not just shopping - duh!
They choose foreign over domestic travel
They spend between $100 adn $150 a day
