Travel reports - why do we write the way we do?

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We write a lot of travel reports and have perhaps changed our writing a bit over the years. We wanted to tell you why we write the way we do and share some thoughts about it. Of course, we'd love to hear your reflections!

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Moderate travel report

If you follow our blog, you may have noticed that our travel reports are getting fuller and fuller, especially those that summarise an entire destination, such as our post with tips for things to do in Budapest. For those of you who follow our blog every day, these posts may sometimes seem 'heavy', so we thought we'd explain our thinking.

This is how we blog while travelling

We always try to blog "in real time" (somewhat anyway ...) when we are travelling. I (Helena) always have the most inspiration to write when the experiences are fresh and it is also fun to get comments when we are in place. Sometimes we get restaurant and sightseeing tips from your readers, and we love that!

Fuller blog posts after returning home

When we come back from a trip, we tend to write all those "full" posts that we don't have time to write while travelling, such as "7 restaurants in Budapest you don't want to miss”.

A summary post about the destination

Finally, I write a summary post about the whole destination, like the post about things to do in Budapest. Here I summarise all our tips, and link to all the different blog posts from the destination. For those who have followed the entire trip, there will probably be some repetition, but the purpose of the post is to:

• Have all our destination tips (e.g. Budapest) in one place.
• Be able to offer a good guide to the destination, which can be found both via our blog and via Google.

Why so many travel reports?

We write full and rich travel reports because we want to offer good travel guides. We hope, for example, that when you are travelling to Hurghada, you will visit our site to find our travel guide. Guide to Hurghada. But there is also another reason.

A large proportion of our readers are people who google something, and then find one of our stories via Google. We want many people to find our blog, so our stories have to be high on Google's search results. And there's only one way to get to the top: write long, full, rich and informative articles. The competition on Google is also getting tougher and tougher, so it takes more and more to get noticed.

However, the fact that we sometimes write long posts has nothing to do with sponsorship. (I take the opportunity to write this because we have been asked about it.) It happens that our posts are sponsored, and then, as usual, it says at the top of the post who our partner is. No partner has ever demanded extra long posts (nor would we accept demands on how/what we write), so this is in no way related.

We mix different posts

We're only writing this post because we want you, the reader, to understand why we write the way we do - sometimes shorter and sometimes very long and informative. We blog every day, and will continue to mix our food guides with shorter and more personal posts. We hope that we will continue to have you on the "train"!

If you have any questions or concerns, don't hesitate to drop us a line!

Top photo in post: Tata in Hungary, photographer Daniela from Discovering the Planet

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