Roaming Tales has been dormant in the past couple of months, not by intention but just because I have been so insanely busy. I am a freelance writer and while I love to blog, paying projects must come first.

I can now see the light at the end of the tunnel so I hope to be blogging more frequently and giving some thought to the future shape of this blog. I would be very interested to know your thoughts so please leave me a comment.

I’ve just come back from Syria, where I stayed with an Iraqi family living in Damascus and attended a wedding, and also took a trip north of Damascus to Krak des Chevaliers, a giant medieval crusader castle, and Hama, city of the wooden water wheels. More about that soon, I hope.

In August, my fiance, another couple and I are spending a weekend in Krakow, Poland. In October my fiance’s family is visiting and we hope to visit Spain. I’m also researching honeymoon destinations in or near Australia for next April. So there’s plenty of travelling on the agenda.

Also on the agenda is the idea of creating a travel blogging community. This is something I have been keen on for a while; I wrote about this back in February and followed up with a series of posts highlighting other travel blogs. (Debbie at Delicious Baby has now published a great list of women travel bloggers, so do take a look).

I’m pleased to see that this theme was picked up at the recent BlogHer conference in San Francisco. There was no travel panel, but there was a meetup of travel bloggers and it looks like that could be the catalyst for something more. Pam, at Nerd’s Eye View, has started a travel blogger forum, which I’ll certainly be signing up for as soon as I’m done with this post. Elizabeth at Go Green Travel Green is asking what travel bloggers want from a community, which is of course an excellent question.

It’s terrific to see so much energy coming out of BlogHer and I think this could be the seed of something powerful and exciting if we pick it up and run with it. For a proper travel blogging community, I imagine we probably want to reach out to the guys as well.

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