The original post: /r/travel by /u/UrMomDotCom666 on 2025-08-03 22:36:39+00:00.

i’m on an interrailing trip right now, for context i’m 18 and have just finished school. starting uni in late september.

i’ve only met people and gone out with them once on my trip. it was the first day of my trip in amsterdam. it was really great. i felt like a normal person. i don’t really have any friends at home, so it felt surreal being accepted by a new group of people.

but since then i haven’t met anyone. i’ve had a few conversations with strangers on the train though. but yeah ive just been going around myself since amsterdam. i booked a hotel in prague and budapest, because i was getting really in my head about everything. also they were much cheaper than hotels in west europe lol.

i’m not trying to make it seem like i haven’t enjoyed my trip. but when i told people about going, they all said it would be amazing and i’d meet loads of people. i had a teacher that i was very close to, and she said that i’ll probably be messaging her back about all of the people i met during my trip. her son is currently doing a few months in asia, and so she used him as an example. but i think they’re all using the context of a normal person who knows how to do things. i’m not really that lol.

again i don’t want it to seem like im complaining. i just want to know if this is normal. i feel like im letting everyone down. i know a lot of other people from my school are interrailing as well but they’re doing it with their friends. i’m glad i still went on this trip though even if im not meeting anyone, i think its quite challenging to do at my age by yourself regardless.