Thursday 30 June 2011

Summary of a Summery Holiday

I've been thinking about writing this post ever since the wheels of my flight left Scottish soil almost a month ago. In fact right from the moment when I knew that I was going on holiday I already had it in my head that, yes I was going to miss a whole month of posting, but that at the end of it I would have some really great things to write about - I was not far from the mark. The truth is that I've got so much to write about from my 3 and a bit weeks of traveling around Europe that I'm not sure that there is enough disk space on any computer in the world to hold it all. My fingers have been twitching for a long time as I've encountered new and interesting things; it felt like I had lost a limb with not being able to post for a whole month. Had it been for any other reason than being on one of the best holidays of my life I doubt that I would have been so accepting of the situation. Anyway, enough of the reasons for me not being able to write and lets get back on it! My holiday consisted of 5 different stops right up the middle of central Europe: Florence, Venice, Vienna, Prague and Berlin. The plan for this post is to give a little insight into my favourite things about each of them. I should say that this post comes with a warning though: I'm going to recommend that you visit each of these places and will continue to do so for pretty much every post that I write about my holiday - for this I can only apologise!

Tuesday 28 June 2011

Home!

My fingers are stiff and my brain is labored by writers block but I'm back and I'm here to stay. The month that I've been away from this blog has been one of the most exciting and stimulating of my life and I hope to be able to portray that in my up coming posts. It is safe to say that I've missed writing more than I've missed most things but you'll all be glad to hear that I've been keeping an eye and an ear out for interesting things to write about and I think I've got a juicy little batch waited to be squeezed through this keyboard in the coming weeks and months. Anyone that has started a blog will know that it is sometimes difficult to come up with ideas on a regular basis but this, for bloggers, is the bread and butter thing that you have to be able to do otherwise you just won't get readers. My hope is that my recent spells of silence (for my exams and of course my holiday) haven't left people feeling bored with the idea of my blog. If anything I'm more excited about blogging than I have been for a long time and I'm going to try and give something back to everyone that sits down on a regular basis to read my posts. A month is a long time in a teenager's life and I feel like I've undergone a few changes in that time because of things, both good and bad, that have happened in my life. So here is to what promises to be a fruitful summer of writing and I hope you enjoy what I've got to say in my future posts!

Much love,

Martin