Running a travel blog in … uncertain times
Reflections of a hobbyist writer of a self-hosted blog about the future of (my) blog(s)
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My Year in Travel 2025: “I Wouldn’t Normally Do This Kind of Thing”
So, I started this early, and I hope to finish before the holidays – when we all fall into several days of contemplation, reflection – or plan the new trips. And now it is already Boxing Day, and I have not made much progress with …
My worst 2024 travel fails
Yes, let’s write a entertaining post about the trainwrecks that are my worst 2024 travel fails, because who doesn’t like a bit of cringe. Truth is, I am learning from all these fails, and if you won’t find enough amusement, you might actually not make …
“To Face the Truth” My 2024 travel year review
The traditional end-of-year retrospective musings of trips completed and not completed.
My favourite travel gifts of all time
My favourite travel gifts are immaterial, and can be anything that enhances my travel experience. In most cases, other from being plain cash, a lovely special accommodation or an upgrade are my best travel gifts of all time! This post shows you some tried and tested destinations, special hotels and experiences you can gift to the traveller in your life!
Sasayama, the Stylish Country Town
Sasayama is the perfect place for a couple relaxed days away from the crowds near Kyoto and Osaka. It has a superbly preserved old merchant street, lovely ceramics, historic buildings and stylish cafes – a perfect place you will have all to yourself during the week!
Short and Sweet 1-week Kansai Itinerary
The post details travel plans for a week-long trip to Japan’s Kansai region. We aim for a culturally immersive experience, visiting grand sites and exploring new ones on a modest budget. Practical aspects like transportation, accommodation, and daily activities are meticulously planned, including considerations for cost-effective traveling and managing sightseeing around Kyoto, Sakai, Tambasasayama and possibly Nara or Uji.
My 2024 Travel Plans
Time to make 2024 travel plans! Looking back at my 2023 Travel Plans, I am pleasantly surprised how many of them I turned into actual trips. My end of year post if full of pictures and good memories, and as is tradition with many in …
“A Red Letter Day”: My 2023 travel year review
So, the end of the year is near… let’s write a wrap-up of the years travels. The traditional “between the years” 2023 travel year review. As the title suggests, it was a pretty good one! And, in the words of my teenage favourites, the Pet …
A splendid two week Uzbekistan Itinerary
Another Uzbekistan itinerary! Sorry, couldn’t help it. I know I know, there are plenty on the internet already. In fact, this Uzbekistan Itinerary, like most, includes the classic Silk Road destinations of Samarkand, Buxoro and Xiva and starts in Tashkent, but it adds the Fergana …
My 2023 Travel Plans: Inspiring, Ambitious or Pie in the Sky?
Hot on the heels of my 2022 travel year comes the 2023 travel plans, or intentions, as the hip ones like to say now. If my speed of writing this blog is anything to go by, I might have finished it in a week or …
Its Alright: My 2022 Travel Year
And so here goes nothing, with about 138 drafts on file, my heads full of plans. Not a great year for travel blogging here, my 2022 travel year but a good year otherwise. Mainly dominated by work. Work first, or what… But that’s okay, because …
Great travel on a budget in economic uncertainty
Here in Central Europe, we are good at doom and gloom after nearly three years of pandemic and nearly a year of war at our doorstep. Not to mention other conflicts not so far from us – Israel-Palestine, various environmental disasters, and now… if media …
Actually #1 or Excitement in Suburbia
Between trying to keep this blog fluff and travel (okay and a bit of food) and wishing to talk about everyday stuff, inspiration, travel plans, I never done the kind of “life update” blog posts, although I love reading them on other peoples blogs. But …
My optimistic 2022 Travel Plans
Just finished a glorious rehash of the previous year, and already off to make 2022 travel plans… well, not quite! We are going through an Omikron Surge right now in Germany, Berlin, where I work, has a seven-day incidence of about 1000 infections per 100.000, …