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Post by chech on Sept 16, 2014 2:04:30 GMT
I just went through my Bohemian Highlights tale and I was actually quite startled by how bleak it is compared to my later tales. LOL Then I remembered that I didn't start taking notes until tour #5. Anyway, I decided to put it on my blog and will post it here under travel tales with the link to the photos and the blog. If you get a chance to look in on it, let me know how functional it is for you and if you find any links broken or going in the wrong direction. If it works okay, I'll put the other ones there as well. It can be found here: wp.me/P4wi9z-ek  |
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Post by Boop on Sept 16, 2014 2:18:38 GMT
I just went through my Bohemian Highlights tale and I was actually quite startled by how bleak it is compared to my later tales. LOL Then I remembered that I didn't start taking notes until tour #5. Anyway, I decided to put it on my blog and will post it here under travel tales with the link to the photos and the blog. If you get a chance to look in on it, let me know how functional it is for you and if you find any links broken or going in the wrong direction. If it works okay, I'll put the other ones there as well. It can be found here: wp.me/P4wi9z-ek I'm on day 2 and so far so good...the pics are good and the tail.....err, tale........has captured my attention!!  |
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Post by LKD on Sept 16, 2014 2:49:29 GMT
Worked well for me too. I skimmed through the entire tale - I did this tour in 2011 and it was interesting to see the slight changes from the 2009 version.
I did a tour tale as well, and think it got transferred to this site. |
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Post by chech on Sept 19, 2014 23:11:06 GMT
Interesting...what stood out that was different in 2011? Did you luck out with the train ride to Warsaw? |
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Post by chech on Sept 19, 2014 23:14:43 GMT
Holy cow, it took me almost five days to transfer a single tale to my blog. At this rate, I'll be done by Christmas. LOL I just put together the Highlights of Austria, Slovenia and Croatia here: wp.me/P4wi9z-hnIf anyone gets a chance to skim through it, let me know if any links joining the days are broken...and how to do the photos look? Especially the banner photos on top. thx  |
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Post by Oz-T on Sept 20, 2014 1:22:06 GMT
I just went through my Bohemian Highlights tale and I was actually quite startled by how bleak it is compared to my later tales. LOL Then I remembered that I didn't start taking notes until tour #5. There was really nothing bleak about your original Bohemian Highlights tale, Chech. As I've mentioned in the past, discovering that travel summary on Google drew me to the Trafalgar forum in the first place and I took a printed copy of it with me on the tour. It was most helpful in learning about the things we were seeing and also an entertaining read. But I do understand what you're saying when you're critical of an earlier work - I am the same. My first travel tale written for Trafalgar was Best of Egypt and it was purely a travelogue - on later tours I felt it was acceptable to Trafalgar to add humour and the more I got away with, the more I did it. Being book authors, we are probably more likely to critically assess our earlier works and revise them if possible, I'll probably do that someday with that Egypt tale. |
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Post by chech on Sept 20, 2014 13:58:58 GMT
Yeah...it felt bleak cause it was more 'we went here and here and saw that.' Almost no description beyond what I could remember and little humour. I actually didn't start taking notes until Scandinavia so Greece, Israel and Jordan are likely to be as basic as this one. I could feel a big difference between the Bohemian Highlights and the Croatia one I just did. Just the word count says a lot. BH was a longer tour but was 13,000 words. Croatia was a day shorter and the tale is 33,000 words. Heh.  |
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Post by anaterra on Nov 16, 2014 3:34:56 GMT
If you have noticed a lot of lurking activity on your travel blog.. it is because I have in the last couple weeks read every tale you have posted.. Im currently finishing up Japan.. I love the way you write and truely love the pics you capture..
Sorry if you think you acquired a new stalker.. lol
thank you sooo much..
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Post by chech on Nov 18, 2014 15:04:23 GMT
LOL...Glad you like them. Seems a few have been lurking. Ever since I stuck my tales up on my blog, I've been getting quite a bit of traffic. Only about half the tales are there now. More to come!  |
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