Am I [25M] misreading this situation as romantic, or is there genuinely a connection here with [20F]?

Help me determine if this girl likes me. I’m 25M and she is 20F. I’m New Zealand atm and she is from Ireland. Also I suck at romantic signals and I’ve also had close platonic female friendships in the past which has made lines blurry for me. I’ve booked a flight to see her later this August, as well as do some exploring of the country on my own, but I just wanted to clarify something in my head.

We met earlier this year backpacking in Colombia and got along super well, spending about 10ish days with each other. She lost her phone 5 days in so we shared my phone. We had long, deep chats, watched the sunsets on the beach (just us), when we went out with others, we did karaoke with our arms around each other. She said I was the closest person she’d met in 9 months travelling (despite making and then breaking up with a boyfriend while travelling). She was also very keen for me to visit Ireland and talked about visiting me. She also put her address in my Google Map favourites with the label “come visit”. When it came time for me to depart, she was going to take a bus for 3 hours with me so that she could spend a bit of extra time with me, and stated that it was for that purpose (I talked her out of it because it didn’t make sense logistically especially as she didn’t have a phone). She also memorised a lot about me, including my birthday (which I don’t remember telling her), and the names of a lot of my friends from back home. She also wrote down my phone number so she could definitely contact me again when she got a new phone.

Since then, she borrowed phones for a bit and made sure to message me, including that she should’ve gotten on the bus with me. When she got a phone of her own, she messaged me with long voice notes and messages, despite a big time difference. We call about once per week now, despite the time difference and us both working full time and having social lives etc and the calls are always 60-90+ minutes (sometimes longer), usually going into the late hours of the night (eg 3-4am). She’s still encouraged me to visit and I recently booked flights. She planned stuff for us to do and said she can take some (but not all) time off work while I’m there (for about 3 weeks). I’m also staying with her and her dad while I’m there. Her friends know about me and are keen to meet me, but I’m not sure what she’s said obviously!

Although she’s invited me to a road trip that her friends had planned that I was initially invited, she said there wasn’t space in the car (potential red flag) but then immediately re suggested a different road trip for us two to visit her friend and the friend’s boyfriend and stay with them for a few days. She also said that we can hang out before and after her work and on her days off obviously. She also said we can just hang out one-on-one while I’m there cos she’s seen her friends a lot.

Also I mentioned I’d never seen a meteor shower before and she sent me a screenshot unprompted with the caption “yo” and the screenshot detailed meteor showers, one of which was around the time I’m visiting (early August btw).

Even when we didn’t message for a few days recently, after I messaged her, she immediately suggested a call soon, which is good. She also has said her friends are keen to meet me. She’s also asked for me to do other stuff like send her more reels, call anytime or speak soon whenever we sign off the calls.

Although the above are good signs, I’m bad with signals and also have some doubts:
- She is still friends with her irish ex and hangs out with him a decent amount (albeit in a larger circle)
- She is still working while I’ll be there, so she might not be that prioritising it so much.
- When I asked what she’d said about me to her friends, she said the regular stuff and a bit of backstory but she said some of them thought it was weird that I was 25 and she said “oh well travel friends can be like that” or something. Keyword friend here.
- We never kissed or overtly expressed feelings
- Could just be being friendly.

If you ask why we never kissed, I’m bad at signals and I’ve also only kissed 3 women in my life so I’m still quite nervous.

TLDR: Lots of positive signals with some doubts, but I’m also awful with signals historically.