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Consider posting
your photos to a personal website along with notes on all
that you
experienced.
Although you can post photos to your
Trip Profile and add comments in the Post-Trip areas,
you can do much more having a website dedicated specifically
to your personal travel adventures.
Simply posting photos and comments to social
media websites like Facebook does not get the job
done.
There are many loctions offering free
websites and tools that will assist you in creating your own
personal website.
It's actually very inexpensive to purchase your own domain
name and have a website hosted by an Internet Service
Provider such as
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Years ago when we moved to England for a
period of 3 years, we devoted as much time as we could to
travel, trying to visit a different country every month as
well as locations around the UK. We wanted to share
our travel experiences with family and friends so we created
a website specifically for travel.
Eddie actually has a personal website
for his artwork
BigDogGalleries and to avoid additional expenses, just
created a sub-directory called
Travel where we posted our photos and comments.
Over the years the website has evolved as we became more
proficient on organizing our photos and the details and
comments we posted.
As this is our personal site, it
takes you away from the eTripCafe website and is an
entirely different presentation format from what you see
here.
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Link to photos and notes on our
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2018
France & Switzerland
Personal Photos & Notes Website Link |
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Grindelwald
Switzerland |
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The balcony of
our hotel room with an Eiger view |
Creating a website and posting your
photos and comments may seem like a lot
of work...and it can be...but we think
you will find it very rewarding.
We often go back and review trips we
took years ago and it's so nice to have
all the information out there including
photos and comments that bring back such
good memories.
As you
create new pages for your trips, it can be
very fun deciding on the photos and comments
you will post out your experiences.
You don't have to be a professional blogger,
just keep it fun and write about the things
you want to remember. The sooner you
create your site after you return from your
trip the better as memories will still be
fresh in your mind. Even after you
have completed it, you may find that
additional things pop into your head and you
can always go back and edit or add
additional comments.
Of
course, once you have your site created,
share it with your own friends and family
members.
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Create a
Christmas Card with some of your favorite travel photos |
Another
fun thing to do is to create your own custom
Christmas Card featuring some of the
best photos from your trip. You will
find several websites where you can upload
photos and position them along with text to
create your card. We used
VistaPrint for the card below.
When using multiple photos as we have, it's
much easier to use some type of photo
editing software on your personal computer
to create the card. Save the entire
collage of photos as a single image.
For this card, we created both a front and
back image that uploaded them to the website.
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Our
2018 Christmas Card Front & Back |
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Cook something! |
You no doubt experienced many different types of food during your travels. Why not try to recreate some of the meals you had? If you have photos of your meals, use them as a reference. You may have purchased a cookbook during your travels, but if not, look for recipes online.
We learned to make crepes after our first trip to Paris after buying them from a street vendor. We have made different types of pizza from scratch after having them in Italy and the thin pizzas of the Alsace area of France. On a trip to Rye England for scallop week, we recreated a meal of scallops, bacon and potatoes with cream sauce.
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Alsace Style Pizza - France |
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Alsace Version |
Our Version |
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Scallops - Rye England |
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Rye Version |
Our Version |
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