Hi,

I am writing itself one such blog http://hottireworld.com but I am looking for new idea and maybe companions in next trips. Could you recommend me some interesting blog or blogs about Euro trips? Maybe someone is interested in cooperation? I would be very happy to recommend some good blogger on my site.


P. S. How to write a report on the trip?

You can google blogs on Europe. There are thousands.

<< How to write a report on the trip? >>

I don't understand the question. Look at some of the trip reports on this board and other travel boards. Leave out the uninteresting details, particularly about the plane trip. A trip report is for and about your memories. You can decide how detailed you want to make it but you need interesting descriptions of places and some detail about what attracted you to the place.

Adrienne has highlighted an interesting aspect of things. SHE thinks plane trip details are "uninteresting" and yet there are others who think EVERY detail of a trip is interesting.

I don't like the trip reports here. Why? Because there are no pics in the write-up. I don't want to have to click to another site to see pics then switch back and forth between tabs.

This is 2013 and server space and bandwidth are dirt cheap. Fodors should step up and revise the forum so that trip reports can include pics, but not too many.


If you're writing a trip report to serve as your public diary, ignore what follows. If you're writing a trip report to share with your family and friends, ignore what follows. If you're writing a trip report to give helpful and useful advice to fellow future travelers, read on.

<i>Leave out the uninteresting details, particularly about the plane trip. </i>

I agree. We all know flying cattle class sucks and the food on US carriers suck. You flew business class? Good for you but I don't want to hear about it.

Uninteresting details:
- the dollar amount of your meals down to the cent.
- what time you woke up
- what time you went to bed
- the weather, unless it's about the seasonal climate


Interesting/helpful details:
- unexpected and unanticipated fees for museums and other sights
- limited time exhibitions and how to get tickets
- that random street fair you found: whether it's a seasonal thing or a one-shot deal
- ease (or lack thereof) of getting around without speaking the language
- visas. Did you need one? Was it available on arrival or did you have to apply in advance?
- if you bought a local SIM, how much was it and what did it include?
- cool crafts/foods that the area is known for that might be a good souvenir
- whether you were impressed or underwhelmed by a particular sight
- how easy was it as an outsider to navigate the public transit system?
- your photos should help tell your story. less is more.
- were US dollars accepted?
- how did the locals carry their water?
- things to see that go together because of proximity
- was there something the guidebook got wrong?
- was a particular sight/attraction closed or otherwise inaccessible?
- how long did it take to get from one place to the next?
- would you or would you not recommend your lodging to others
- did you feel safe?
- etc.

I think trip reports are hard to write. If you read a magazine like Lonely Planet... They do not write an "I went here, I went there" trip report. They write something which (hopefully) strkes a chord and compels you to visit a country or city. They isolate the details in the bottom (where to stay, eat, etc).

I write a blog about travel in Central Europe... my most recent post being about Piran where I tried to more copy this format. I do not try to write in a style that enables someone to exactly replicate what I did since things like finding a bus schedule is quite easy. That "how to" do everything type of style isn't interesting to me (to write or to read).

Of course, some people need that. I would use a Rick Steve's if I needed that type of basic travel detail.

This is a link to my travel blog:

www.centraleuropebeyondprague.com

I write a different blog on life as a US expat living in Central Europe. I seperated them because the two forms of writing (and audiences) are so different.

Good luck in your travels... Julie

I agree about being able to insert pictures into trip reports without having to resort to links to photo hosting sites. Long overdue. But since we're not even to be trusted with an edit button I think hell will probably freeze over before you see anything other than plain text on here.

Here's a link to my blog:

http://tripspicsandtales.blogspot.co...travel-to.html

I linked you to the first entry of our most recent trip which was a family trip to Europe. There are still more entries to come as I'm not done posting for that trip yet. However there are also earlier trips to Belize and I started blogging a trip to Costa Rica but got a bit side tracked and didn't get finished that one. Hopefully I'll get back to it at some point!

I did post the entire trip report here, which you can find by clicking on my name. But as other's have mentioned, with the trip reports here you can't post pictures, which is a drawback. I did include links to my flikr albums though.

Dukey is absolutely correct - trip reports and blogs are subjective. I like to look at photos separately from reading the report (I do hate it when people post photos and you have no idea where they were taken). I do like details but not the boring ones that I would not be able to replicate. I find many blogs to be superficial and don't really like reading them.

My trip reports are informative for me and they reflect what I think is significant, and allow me to re-live my trips. If someone else enjoys them and can glean some information from them then I'm glad to have helped with their trip(s).

Write for yourself since you won't be able to please everyone.

There was a thread on this board about what makes a good trip report but I was not able to find it.

<<P. S. How to write a report on the trip? >>

However you like. Personally, I just start typing, then go back and edit. I do it for myself, so I write what I like, not what I think others will. I just think of myself as a chronicler, just reminding myself look, here's what happened today... nothing more

When you post your report, note the following close to the page bottom:

"TRIP REPORT
Check this box if your message is a trip report."

Then, your post is tagged "Trip Report."