A Blogging novice
“Get your ass off home, right away,” Scott had said, “and set up a travel blog for all your stories.”
We were sat at opposite ends of a bench during Lockdown in the shadows of the ruins of Old Saint Chad’s church in Shrewsbury, England.
I jumped to attention and scuttled off back to my abode, but quite frankly, I hadn’t a clue as to what a travel blog was. I had vague recollections of people I knew setting up an online diary, so that they could pontificate about anything and everything to do with their daily existence, from the best deals they had discovered down at Marks & Spencer’s, to their views on war in Lebanon. But he wasn’t really expecting me to do this, was he? And anyway, I wasn’t sure exactly where Lebanon was.
I was always a bit of an IT novice. In fact, before I had progressed onto a mobile phone that could just about text and receive calls, my mother was already a wizard with the world wide web, a fully-fledged silver-surfer. She also seemed to be the font of all “knowledge on global politics and certainly wouldn’t have resorted to a blog for her information. So, I decided not to ask her for advice – best not show my ignorance about blogs, or the Lebanon, and went off to do my own research.
After all, all I merely wanted to set up a website that could host travel stories I had produced in decades past, just in case they got accidentally thrown out, either from under the bed or up in the loft. A starting point seemed simple enough – just find a few examples of travel writing websites that other people had set up. Surely the internet was awash with them……
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