The Journey Of Creating a Travel Blog

So I noticed that there are many travel blogs out there.  Not only are they are a great source of information and a great read, they also help pay for the blogger to travel more around the world.  Wouldn't that be great to travel the world, telling everyone your stories and getting paid to do it?

This has turned into a diary more than a real travel blog, like the really good top bloggers have.  So I think I'm to do some real research and get another blog set up, whilst keeping this as a kind of journal of how I'm going.

I've just looked at some amazing blogs.  They look pretty.  They look very pretty indeed.  The first thing that struck me was the menu "destination", I'm not sure this is something that blogger.com can offer, so perhaps I need to look at other bloggin options.

The other thing I noticed was some of the amazing pictures.  I need to be adding more full screen sized pictures.  More pictures, more pictures, more pictures.

There we go - there's a picture from my recent trip to Amalfi coast.  Which oddly enough I haven't yet blogged about.  I feel I'm already behind and I should be talking about previous trips.  Maybe I should start with now and when I have time work backwards.

What would I say about my recent trip.  It was a tour, so maybe I can't talk about all the restaurant options in a location, as we just went with the recommended.  However talking about a tour is probably unique to the normal travel bloggers, as they do very independent trips.  I don't do as many of those for a few reasons, mostly because I like the idea of "guaranteed companions".  When I went to Thailand by myself the thing I learnt most was I got lonely when spending a lot of time by myself.  Don't get me wrong I met people, and made friends.  Just not as many as I normally do.  Having been to Kenya alone, and I didn't spend much time alone and that time alone I cherished and enjoyed.

It's a strange balance.

Anyway I'm moving off topic here... I should create a new travel blog.  The solo traveller who does guided tours and give the other side of the story from truly independent travel.  My next trip will be either with Exodus or G adventures when I can make my mind up which trip I will do.  That will be good to compare against the 3 Intrepid trips I've done.

OK theme of blog decided.  Next find a platform to do my blogging and then I'll tell my story of sailing around Amalfi coast.