Comments on: How Your Blog Can Turn Your Holiday into Work http://www.gourmantic.com/2010/02/02/how-your-blog-can-turn-your-holiday-into-work/ Travel. Food. Drink. Events. Thu, 09 Feb 2012 04:38:22 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.1 By: Round The World Travel: Don’t Forget to Pack Your Blog | Gourmantic http://www.gourmantic.com/2010/02/02/how-your-blog-can-turn-your-holiday-into-work/#comment-6812 Round The World Travel: Don’t Forget to Pack Your Blog | Gourmantic Thu, 20 Jan 2011 10:39:57 +0000 http://www.gourmantic.com/?p=2217#comment-6812 [...] Blogs are high maintenance beasts. Maintaining quality travel blogs with good writing and photography takes significant time and effort. Even when the tasks turn into routine, the travel blog ‘originally designed to keep in touch with family and friend’ has morphed into that same thing with deadlines you wanted to leave behind: work. [...] [...] Blogs are high maintenance beasts. Maintaining quality travel blogs with good writing and photography takes significant time and effort. Even when the tasks turn into routine, the travel blog ‘originally designed to keep in touch with family and friend’ has morphed into that same thing with deadlines you wanted to leave behind: work. [...]

]]> By: Gourmantic http://www.gourmantic.com/2010/02/02/how-your-blog-can-turn-your-holiday-into-work/#comment-893 Gourmantic Thu, 11 Feb 2010 05:21:05 +0000 http://www.gourmantic.com/?p=2217#comment-893 <strong>Jeremy & Eva Rees</strong>: Gets a bit like that with all the upkeep and networking tools. When we returned from an intensive 5 week trip, I said that I have material for nearly two years’ worth of articles. Now that I’ve started working on them, I relate to the loss of certain on-the-spot emotions or passions that you mention. It’s a small price to pay, but memories have a good way of returning and they evoke emotions that inspire a piece of writing. I too relate to the photography aspect. I barely had time to download the photos on my laptop let alone review the quality or get to know the new camera's full capabilities. I’m very pleased you’ve decided to make the enjoyment of your trip a priority. I have been following your travels for some time now and you both have been doing a stellar job on your site :). Jeremy & Eva Rees: Gets a bit like that with all the upkeep and networking tools.

When we returned from an intensive 5 week trip, I said that I have material for nearly two years’ worth of articles. Now that I’ve started working on them, I relate to the loss of certain on-the-spot emotions or passions that you mention. It’s a small price to pay, but memories have a good way of returning and they evoke emotions that inspire a piece of writing. I too relate to the photography aspect. I barely had time to download the photos on my laptop let alone review the quality or get to know the new camera’s full capabilities.

I’m very pleased you’ve decided to make the enjoyment of your trip a priority. I have been following your travels for some time now and you both have been doing a stellar job on your site :).

]]> By: Jeremy & Eva Rees http://www.gourmantic.com/2010/02/02/how-your-blog-can-turn-your-holiday-into-work/#comment-888 Jeremy & Eva Rees Wed, 10 Feb 2010 17:10:26 +0000 http://www.gourmantic.com/?p=2217#comment-888 Oh man, do we empathize! We've been first weeks, and now months behind for some time. At first, we worried and tried to squeeze extra time into the day, and then we just gave up and decided to enjoy our travels and let the blog work itself out at it's own pace. The sad part about all this is that all the time between experience and finally writing the blog blurs our memories and we find we've forgotten some of the strength of emotions we'd felt at the place we're now trying to write about. It's not easy to recreate the atmosphere of it all. Seeing the world with fresh eyes through the camera lens can be a real challenge day in and day out, especially finding time to review all the snaps at the end of the day. I often feel I could be learning more about my photo skills if I had more time to review what I had done, right away. I guess at some point we needed to decide where our priorities lay, and it wasn't on the blog. Yes, we're proud of it, and yes we enjoy working on it, but this year is far too important for us to be sitting in the hotel room 4 hours each day worrying about twitter and flickr and wordpress and ... :) Oh man, do we empathize! We’ve been first weeks, and now months behind for some time. At first, we worried and tried to squeeze extra time into the day, and then we just gave up and decided to enjoy our travels and let the blog work itself out at it’s own pace. The sad part about all this is that all the time between experience and finally writing the blog blurs our memories and we find we’ve forgotten some of the strength of emotions we’d felt at the place we’re now trying to write about. It’s not easy to recreate the atmosphere of it all.
Seeing the world with fresh eyes through the camera lens can be a real challenge day in and day out, especially finding time to review all the snaps at the end of the day. I often feel I could be learning more about my photo skills if I had more time to review what I had done, right away.
I guess at some point we needed to decide where our priorities lay, and it wasn’t on the blog. Yes, we’re proud of it, and yes we enjoy working on it, but this year is far too important for us to be sitting in the hotel room 4 hours each day worrying about twitter and flickr and wordpress and … :)

]]> By: Gourmantic http://www.gourmantic.com/2010/02/02/how-your-blog-can-turn-your-holiday-into-work/#comment-844 Gourmantic Wed, 03 Feb 2010 22:07:16 +0000 http://www.gourmantic.com/?p=2217#comment-844 <strong>Anil</strong>: Just reading the words "schedule" and "boundaries" in relation to a holiday makes me think it's become a job and not a relaxing vacation. The more constraints I put on it, the more I feel I'm back at my desk. The blurry line you mention is a difficult one. How much am I prepared to sacrifice? The website or the joy of travel... Anil: Just reading the words “schedule” and “boundaries” in relation to a holiday makes me think it’s become a job and not a relaxing vacation. The more constraints I put on it, the more I feel I’m back at my desk. The blurry line you mention is a difficult one. How much am I prepared to sacrifice? The website or the joy of travel…

]]> By: Anil http://www.gourmantic.com/2010/02/02/how-your-blog-can-turn-your-holiday-into-work/#comment-843 Anil Wed, 03 Feb 2010 13:13:40 +0000 http://www.gourmantic.com/?p=2217#comment-843 The line is always blurry for me but I set a schedule and try to stick to it. It helps to put boundaries over work time and life. The line is always blurry for me but I set a schedule and try to stick to it. It helps to put boundaries over work time and life.

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