Travel and expat blogs make finals for 2010 Bloggies

Travel blogs have made a fantastic showing in the finals of this year’s 2010 Weblog Awards, also known as the Bloggies. Food blogs have been popular in the Bloggies for some time and remain so, but the profile of travel blogging has really leapt ahead in the last couple of years.
The Bloggies is one of [...]

Roaming Tales is up for an award – please vote!

I have been nominated for best travel blog in the 2009 Bloggers Choice Awards. It is a numbers game so please go and vote for me!
I normally post in Photo Friday on Fridays but I’m taking a break from blogging over the Labor Day long weekend. The event is still running over at Debbie Dubrow’s [...]

Best of the Web – Gooseberry Fool: Foodie links for 10 August

Food and travel
Vegetarian travel. Top 10 countries to be vegetarian in, according to Expatify.

Maltese delicacy. Nanette, the self-styled Ms Gourmet of Gourmet Worrier, writes about ġbejniet – individual cheeselettes formed in little plastic baskets made from fresh goat or sheep milk. The picture of her little girl with a bag of ġbejniet is adorable!
Spanish snouts. [...]

Travel blog awards and community

Travel blogging comes of age – the Bloggies are the icing on an incredible year.

What a difference a year makes! This time last year I was bemoaning the fact that there were no travel blogs in the finals of the 2008 Bloggies compared with 11 food blogs. I suggested that travel bloggers needed to develop [...]

Food blogs feast at the Bloggies

Congratulations to all the food blogs nominated for the 2009 Bloggies and particularly the winners.

Drum roll…

Chocolate and Zucchini won Best European Weblog.

Everybody Likes Sandwiches won Best Canadian Weblog.

Cake Wrecks won Best Food Weblog, Best Writing of a Weblog and Best New Weblog. Wow, what a haul!

Foodie at Fifteen won Best Teen Weblog.

Please also see the [...]

Award update

An update on travel blog awards, following from this post.

This news just in. Mark Ashley from Upgrade Travel has contacted me to inform me that the Travvies will indeed run this year. Apparently there was a problem last year and the nominations were collected but something went badly wrong at that point. He plans to [...]

Food blogging awards – share the love

Round-up of current awards for food bloggers.
2008 Food Blog Awards
Today is the last day to nominate your favourite food blogs for the 2008 Food Blog Awards at Well Fed Network. You have until 11.59pm US East Coast time.
This is not a plug. Most of the categories stipulate that you need at least six posts a [...]

2009 travel blog awards

It’s award season … I won’t be going home with an Oscar but there are still prestigious honours to be won.

2009 Bloggies
Hurrah! Nominations are open for the 2009 Bloggies and this year they have introduced an award for best travel blog. This is great news! Last year I bemoaned the fact that not only was [...]

Travel blogs – The Travvies winners

I promised yesterday to point my readers in the direction of some good travel blogs. A good place to start is with the 2007 Travvies.

Upgrade Travel Better, about getting more bang for your buck. The organiser of the Travvies.

Exposed Planet, which has stunningly beautiful photographs and is the deserving winner of the best photography category.
Cranky [...]

Travel blog awards – a question of community

Did you vote in the 2008 Bloggies? Voting has now closed and the winners will be announced on 10 March.
The Bloggies have been going for eight years now and they are very prestigious. Winning a Bloggie is not only a great honour, it would undoubtedly would bring a big boost in audience for any [...]

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