I went alone when I was 19 for the first time and it exceeded my expectations, everyone I met was so down to do anything and so friendly! Still friends with a few of the people I met and it’s been 4 years since. The good thing is, if u don’t want to talk to people or just wanna hang by urself it’s so easy to do that and then if u want to talk to people and meet people. Just stay at a hostel. People will introduce themselves in the dorms, invite you to hand and chat, you just sometimes have to go up first which is abit scary but basically everyone is on the same boat, travelling alone and wanting to meet people. I loved that I had the freedom to do anything I wanted whenever I wanted. It’s scary in the beginning but as you meet people and hear their experiences it gets easy! Like I was scared to eat alone at restaurants in the beginning but hearing how the other solo travellers were so comfortable doing it, it made it so much easier and I realised there’s nothing to be scared of really. And also something that helped me ease into it was I volunteered to be a English mentor for 2 weeks in Europe in the beginning where I was travelling and I made a lot of friends there which was great cause after the program we would hang out and some people will meet u in other cities if they are also travelling around. It’s soooo worth it!