Friday at last! This has (as usual) been a crazy week. In addition to mingling at the Portuguese Embassy on Monday, we have had a press breakfast and opened up our home for reports. We've also had (almost) a record number of visitors to the blog.
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Press breakfast with Antor
Last Wednesday we were invited to a press breakfast with Antor (the network of foreign tourist agencies in Sweden). This is an opportunity to mingle with the different tourist agencies and discuss both travel ideas and possible collaborations, while meeting other journalists and bloggers in the travel industry.
This year Antor awarded a prize for the best blog travel report and it was won by our fellow travel blogger in the group. Swedish Travel Bloggers, namely Lena from Ladies Abroad. Lena won a trip to Hong Kong with SAS, a well-deserved prize for a great travel blog!
Report on us
Yesterday afternoon/evening we had a visit from a journalist and a photographer for a report. about us and about living in houseboat. Exciting! We don't yet know where it will be published, but we'll tell you more when we do. And if you see it before we do... shout out!
Improving the blog
We're doing a lot of work on the blog right now, including making the menu easier to use on a mobile phone. You can now only see five main headings (instead of many more) and the sub-headings fold out under these. (If you see it as before, it may be because your phone has a "memory". You can reset this memory by clearing history and website data in settings, but it may forget other things as well).
We will also rebuild other features of the blog to make it more user-friendly for you. To rebuild, we're hiring a web developer, which of course costs money. How do we finance things like this? Well, we do it through the sponsored posts (collaborations) that you sometimes see here on the blog!
(Almost) record number of visitors
We write on our blog that we have about 25,000 unique visitors per month according to Google Analytics. This is pretty accurate, although it varies from month to month. In the summer we had almost 30,000 unique visitors per month. Now we also have almost 30,000 unique visitors, but only almost... Maybe we will reach 30,000 visitors/month today Friday, who knows?
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Diana says:
Congratulations on the visitor record 🙂 hugs
16 March 2018 - 7:04
Helena says:
Thank you Diana! Have a nice weekend!
16 March 2018 - 17:21
Travel Linda says:
Congratulations on good visitor numbers! The best thing about this week is that we are going on a small car journey to visit relatives on the other side of Sweden this weekend. Nice to get some travel feeling, it has been quiet on that front for a while ...
16 March 2018 - 8:07
Helena says:
How nice to have a car journey to your family! Have a nice weekend!
16 March 2018 - 17:21
Britt-Marie Lundgren says:
Congratulations on the great numbers! It's great when hard work pays off!
Today is a much-needed Friday off after a busy working week as usual. Now we are on the train to Stockholm with members of the Fotoklubben for a weekend of photography. We think this is a good start to a Happy Friday!
16 March 2018 - 8:31
Helena says:
Photo weekend sounds great fun! ??
16 March 2018 - 17:22
Jan and Marita says:
Congratulations on the record? ☀️
16 March 2018 - 8:38
Helena says:
Thank you very much! Have a nice weekend! 🙂
16 March 2018 - 17:23
4000mil says:
Always a bit frustrating with the "almost figures", but great to see so many visitors!
16 March 2018 - 8:55
Helena says:
Right? We have been close to 30,000 for a long time, but today we actually crossed the "barrier" 😉.
16 March 2018 - 17:24
Mr Steve says:
Good to see encouraging visitor numbers after another "crazy" week.
The best part of this week was this morning when I woke up to an absolutely magical morning. One of those mornings that brings feelings of joy and hope. Lovely!
16 March 2018 - 9:19
Helena says:
It sounds wonderful! Spring is on its way 🙂
16 March 2018 - 17:24
Johnny Friskilä says:
Fun! Yes, I am a bit away from your numbers, although I see that it goes up even for my blog. February was my second best month ever in the number of visitors, and that's good considering that the month only has 28 days 🙂.
But the best thing about this week, it must be the days in Cambodia and then especially the temples of Angkor Wat and all the good food I ate in the country. Then during the week I have been invited to lunch by two different readers and that is always nice!
16 March 2018 - 9:19
Helena says:
Congratulations on a great month on the blogJohnny! Cambodia sounds very exciting! And oh, what nice readers you have who offer lunch!!! 🙂
16 March 2018 - 17:26
Anna / Weaving aunts says:
Congratulations to many visitors! It's fun when others want to read what you write! Looking forward to reading the report about living on a houseboat, maybe it's a bit like living in a motorhome, you have done both and so the differences may be inspiration for a blog post 🙂.
16 March 2018 - 10:33
Helena says:
Yes, that could be a great blog idea! Thank you 🙂
16 March 2018 - 17:26
Monet says:
Have you bought canapés at Picard in France?
16 March 2018 - 11:41
Helena says:
Haha, yes exactly 😉
16 March 2018 - 19:34
Birgitta in Umeå says:
And you talk about spring fatigue. I would say exhausted! Do you understand?
The best thing about the week is that the sun has been with us every day up here in Umeå. You begin to believe that spring is coming.
16 March 2018 - 13:06
Helena says:
Yes .... you may have a point Birgitta! We are probably quite exhausted... Lovely sunshine! ☀️
16 March 2018 - 17:27
Malin - The Free Princess says:
Great to see a record number of visitors! Congratulations! 😀
16 March 2018 - 13:38
Åke Hammarbäck says:
Last weekend it was real winter in Åre, in Malmö Lund it snowed today. Now I'm on the train to Stockholm, F&S turns 40 years old and tonight there will be a reunion for the old Ski Section to speculate about jubilee ski activity next winter.
Will stay at small Design hotel Norrmalm. But unfortunately travelling down again Saturday morning.
Have a nice weekend! ?
16 March 2018 - 13:55
Helena says:
Hope you have a nice (albeit short!) trip to Stockholm!
16 March 2018 - 21:41
Goatfish says:
How nice for you 😀 You look good in the design on your mobile phone too.
Congratulations 😀 .
And what fun to get more media coverage! All these things lift you up.
Happy Friday to you.
This week we have celebrated the 3-year anniversary of the daughter and I, but on separate sides and tomorrow I will do an hour in Spin of Hope.
16 March 2018 - 14:53
Helena says:
Thanks for all the positive energy Gerd! Happy anniversary and good luck tomorrow!
16 March 2018 - 21:42
Oscar Andr'en says:
It's nice and rewarding to read about a winning concept and get inspiration yourself.
16 March 2018 - 14:56
Helena says:
Great if we can inspire! 🙂
16 March 2018 - 21:42
Snows says:
Congratulations on great visitor numbers and an exciting week! The best part, as usual, has been meeting the little grandchild!
Happy Friday!
16 March 2018 - 15:11
Helena says:
Wishing you a nice weekend Znogge!
16 March 2018 - 21:43
BP says:
Congratulations on that number of visitors! Fantastic!
Great fun with mingle and the canapés looked really good, which they probably were too;-)
Nice to have another report about you and the houseboat. It's just a pity that the photography took place during the snowstorm.
The best thing about this week was the sun that came out both yesterday and today. You really longed for it ...
16 March 2018 - 16:17
Helena says:
It was a bit unlucky with the snow because the sun was shining just before, but you can't control that ... Have a nice weekend!
16 March 2018 - 21:43
Matts Torebring says:
Congratulations to you and the large number of people who read your blog. You are worth it!
17 March 2018 - 18:38
Christine - 29°. says:
Congratulations on the fantastic visitor numbers! 🙂
Have a nice weekend!
18 March 2018 - 5:05
Lena - good for the soul says:
Wow, what a near-record! Soon the dike will be blown up. Good job!
Hug Lena
19 March 2018 - 6:10
Linda, resamedvetet.se says:
Congratulations on the near-record 🙂 fun with the peaks and that you share your statistics 🙂 .
20 March 2018 - 23:48