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Published: September 6th 2006
So, just like with my previous blogging attempts, I think I'll be reposting a lot of interesting things that I've written in other places (interesting to me, at least).
This is a post I wrote today in a travelblog.org discussion forum entitled, "Does blogging keep you in touch?":
In 2005, I had a friend head out for six months in Southeast Asia. He kept a travel blog and I learned a lot from his experience.
First, as a reader, I learned just how inspiring and interesting it is to have a friend doing such a thing. His blog kept me up on his affairs, gave me a vicarious experience, and--most of all--made me jealous (which, in turn, inspired my own current world travel and blogging plans).
Then, after returning from Asia, he shared his own perspectives on the travel-blogging experience with me. As a writer, the blog kept him in the writing habit (the importance of which cannot be over-stressed), it also encouraged him to experience his travels more fully: looking outward and inward with intent and intensity (what I mean is that by writing everyday he payed greater attention to things both internal and external, and "lived" more). Also, as a traveller, his blog enabled him to create and to intersect with new opportunities abroad. Writing about his travels in a forum that allowed anyone to read and anyone to make contact led him to encounters with friends, family, other travelers. (And fans of his blog, one of whom travelled all the way to Thailand to meet him!)
So, when I made my travel plans, I decided that a blog would be essential (for the family and friends that will be my readers, for the writer inside me, and for the traveller that I will become).
I intend to use this blog for my readers as a storytelling-forum in which to relate my experiences and insights. I intend to use this blog as a writer to practice my writing and to keep in the habit. Most importantly, I intend to use this blog as a traveller, to keep in touch with friends, to make new ones, and to connect with people overseas. That last bit is the most important, as just beginning this blog has already made me aware of friends who will be visiting some of the same places as I. Beacuse of the blog, we may just be able to meet up over there! (Or, at least, we can share tips and contacts along the way.)
This thing's already helping me keep in touch, and I haven't even left yet!
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Rich martin
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whilst in crete
Nic, You have to go to this beach on your travels to Crete. I have attached the link. I was there for 2 nights as a 19 year old. I was with 3 great friends and we had been partying in Agios Nicolos for a week or so. We were looking for refuge and heard about this place. It truelly is a beautiful spot, you have to camp the night on this beach, you wont regret it. The most amazing views and night sky I have ever seen. In the day you get nudist folk letting it all live loose. i loved it and hotoghly recommend you check it out. http://gogreece.about.com/cs/beachesnude1/a/sweetwater.htm