Six Virtuoso offers worth booking this month, from pink-sand beaches to the Costa Smeralda. October is when the best trips of the coming year quietly get booked. The light goes golden, the calendar finally opens up, and summer is far enough behind you to start daydreaming again. So I'm starting a new monthly series: The Golden Edit. Each month it'll gather the Virtuoso specials I'd book for myself, or for you. A Trip for One is a Virtuoso member and an affiliate agency of PTN

As a gift to myself for my 40th birthday, I booked a flight to Lisbon. I had traveled for years for work, all over the world, and with friends across Europe and Asia, but this trip was just for me. I wanted to book the activities and tours that appealed to me, and only me. If I wanted to sleep in, I could. If I wanted dinner at my villa with a glass of port, a good book, and a view that did all the talking, I could do that too. And on every small group experience I booked, wh