DD spending a while totally alone

Of all those plans you’ve listed with countries on the other side of the world, it’s the 8 weeks in the UK that worry you? That would be when I finally breathed a sigh of relief!
Not exactly the same but as an introvert I absolutely loved when I was 17-23 and my family all went off on their summer travels. I just spent the whole time on my own watching all the summer sport, reading in the sun, gardening, teaching myself to cook and enjoying good wine all on my own agenda. It was bliss!

One of my biggest regrets in life is that I didn't follow my dreams because I listened to the 'advice' from my parents who drummed into me that they knew best and talked me out of adventures and all sorts of dreams that I had. I was about 15 years older than your daughter before I developed the self-confidence to actually pursue changes and adventures.

If she wants to spend a couple of months alone then just wish her well and let her know you are on the end of the phone if she needs you. She has a car, she can always bring herself home if she changes her mind.

All of that travel followed by two months alone sounds wonderful to me!

The snow and wind don’t care if you have money.

OP didn’t say ‘my DD fancies living in the Lake District for a couple of months in a village with a friendly local pub and the motorway home on the doorstep’. She said very rural, and not necessarily in the UK. Very rural means very isolated.

Agree with PPs, and just to add- if you try to persuade her out of it and tell her she’ll hate it, it’ll make it that much harder for her to admit she does hate it and wants to come home (if she does, which I’m by no means sure she will!)

She’ll think you’ll be all “told you so”- so I would just go with it and see what happens. As everyone else has said, she can always change her plans (as long as by then it hasn’t become a point of principle for her - that she knows her own mind despite what her mother thinks etc etc)

Wow. how did that come about? What a fantastic thing to do. It's great for young people to learn self-reliance and how to be in their own skin and own company.

She sounds fantastic and it all sounds amazing. Let her go out there and do her thing.

How amazingly lucky your DD is. I hope she has a great time.

She's 18. Loads of people are fully independent by then, paying bills, feeding themselves, going to work.

It sounds like she'll be meeting the world and his wife in the previous 9 months. She might need a bit of downtime. I would.

Yes, but she can leave if she’s not enjoying herself. She’s not bound to this location, and she has money and lots of options.

You're acting as though she's off to a cabin without electricity in Alaska rather than a bog-standard Air BnB in the UK. She's hardly going to be stranded for two months, is she?

The car and the internet won’t get you far in very rural areas if the weather doesn’t play ball, which is a risk in those months (ffs).

I think it sounds like a brilliant idea & your DD will 'find' herself & know who she is without any interference from the outside world by being on her own & relying on herself for a short time in her life. She will know if it's for her or not once she'd been on her own for a little while. She sounds very sensible & grown up so I'd not try to put her off or give negative comments to her plans, maybe suggest her staying in the UK though so she can get home easier if needs be. Support her & say you'll always be just a phone call away so if she needs you or anything to call home.

she has close to 1mil from carefully invested inheritance (more than I’ll ever have) from her dads side, so financially I don’t think she will ever struggle

Wowsers.

That's a wonderful idea, very mature of her.

That’s so small-minded. I spent a full winter totally alone on an island where no one else lived, where bad weather meant the supply boat sometimes couldn’t come for three weeks — I loved it, and I wasn’t much older than the OP’s daughter.

Sounds good to me. Certainly better than doing national service. She should do this while she can because if the Tories get in then gap years cease to exist again and she can she did it.

Sounds great - if she gets bored a couple of weeks in she can change her plan or invite a friend to join her. Not like she had to make the decision then remain locked inside. What a fun year. Very lucky!

My thoughts exactly 😆

Agree with most other comments, the ability to be happy and content in your own company is totally underrated yet it is so, so important. Your DD sounds very wise and mature ... and having a car, access to the Internet and sufficient financial resources will make it easy to move on if it doesn't work out. She's not going to be totally isolated (unless she only shops on line), presumably she will be going to a local town or village occasionally for supplies.

Sounds amazing. Am jealous

I think it sounds fine, being happy in your own company is a great trait to have. She may hate it, she may just be fine. These days with the internet / video calls at your finger tips you’re never truly alone

You'd think with a Swedish father you might be a bit more understanding of the Swedish desire to be alone, isolated and not to always have noise or interference from others.

It is quite normal and I think self reflection can be a good thing.

Equally, a nice shotgun and plenty of cartridges would be in order !

That’s been covered up thread! Go to the OP & click See all OP’s posts.

My thoughts are, how in earth is she paying for all of this?!

Have you ever been alone for 2 months yourself OP? What are your concerns actually based on? Travelling plus time after to decompress and reflect sounds perfect, she’s clearly got her head screwed on.