In 2005, I attended a singles weekend in Belgium — 30 people, a beautiful chateau in the Ardennes, great food, great wine, and zero awkwardness. By Sunday I'd made genuine friends and had some of the best conversations of my adult life.
That weekend was organised by a man who simply wanted to meet interesting people. He placed one advertisement. The response was enormous. Twenty years later, that small idea had grown into one of Europe's most loved singles travel concepts, with tens of thousands of guests.
I never forgot what that weekend felt like — the ease of it, the quality of the conversations, the way the shared setting created an instant sense of belonging. And I couldn't understand why nothing like it existed in Australia.
So in 2026, I decided to change that.
