Season 1 Recap

My beginning in blogging was a product of a warm and sunny summer morning. I sat down on the balcony and just wrote for some hours and in the end I got the ten first posts finished. But of course there were some tweaks because of the order and stuff. After that headstart there where several evenings I spent on the balcony bringing up concepts for series and the blog itself. My girlfriend got annoyed when I asked her over and over again if this or that would work out but she got her payback.

I tried to get three post a week done but it only worked out for two weeks or so until I set back to two posts and that still works out perfectly. Also I tried to fit the series in the schedule without missing all the latest news I wanted to cover and now ended up with actually two monthly series and a lot of more or less instant content.

It was great to get out once a week, shooting pictures for the Board and Bike Spots. In general I fell in love with photography and even bought my first own camera. And Hamburg is a great city to get started with photography: modern and classic, urban and landscape.

That is my recap of my first six months of blogging with now finally many more to come.


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Blogs To Read - love from berlin

Today I want to introduce to you to Rae Tashman, a digital product designer and photographer, obviously located in Berlin. Also she runs her blog that is built with a big focus on visuals but the texts are at least as important. I'm going back to browsing through her archive now, see you wednesday.

http://raetashman.com/
http://www.lovefromberlin.net/


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Blogs To Read - Hand Luggage Only

Recently I really got into travel again but as I'm currently a volunteer at a school I am pretty much limited in budget and time. So, I try to suck in as much about my favorite destinations and routes as possible through the internet. Aside YouTube, blogs are my major source with my personal number one:

© Hand Luggage Only

© Hand Luggage Only

These two guys there on the left are actually still quite new to the blogging business - although their had the idea of Hand Luggage Only since 2012 their started the blog in April 2014. They write about anything they think could be useful or entertaining for their readers: travel logs of the most awesome parts of their never-ending journey, top lists of activities and tips, and guides to make your travel smoother.

"We believe that travel should be accessible and open to all, that's why we try our best to showcase WHYs, HOWs and WHEREs of the very best in travel."

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Blogs To Read - Muted Mornings

© Mimmi Rönning

And Sweden scores again: Mimmi Rönning is 19 years old and currently living in Glasgow where she's studying English Literatur. I love how she is one of the few bloggers now who write about whatever happens in their lives while others stick to their editorial calendars - although that might be fitting for their branches. However, I like her for her writing, topics and pictures that are always composed to awesome posts. Especially her appreciative posts are a nice read when you need to see the good things in life. Well, just browse through her blog a little and you'll find a lot of nice stories to read.

Latest appreciative post: One month in Glasgow & Appreciative Post #6
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Blogs To Read - Nicole Eddy

So, may I introduce: Nicole Eddy, 22 years old, from Cape Town, South Africa. Her blog, named after herself, isn't that old yet - she released her first post on May 15, 2014. Besides that, she's currently studying psychology. And media & writing. And environmental & geographical sciences. Business as usual, right?

© Nicole Eddy

Of course, Cape Town is the perfect place for adventure lovers. Mountains to climb, oceans to swim and surf in, the South African nature in general is full of awesome views, places and animals. At least that's what I'd say. As I've never been there and been used to the Central European flora and fauna all my life, that isn't that much of a scale. But I would really love to go there for a month or two to explore the city and all other kinds of adventures.

Her posts are mostly divided into three categories: With her Lifestyle posts, Nicole shows us what she likes to do and how she lives her life. Most part of the Travel posts is her London Journal, a series of posts that let us follow her through her 3-week trip to London, where she visited her boyfriend Ben Brown (maybe you remember him from an earlier post). Actually, without him I wouldn't have know her at this point, thanks Ben. So the last major category is Issues of Our Time. Rather serious topics, that make you think while and after reading it. Also you should really take your time for these as they might come out a little longer than other posts.

Yeah, I'm really happy that I found her and love her style. If you want to know more about or read some of her posts, go over to http://www.nicoleeddy.com or follow her on Bloglovin.


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Blogs To Read - Jennypurr

© Jen Carrington

May I introduce: Jen Carrington. With her blog Jennypurr, that was founded in March 2013, she is currently reaching more than 10,000 readers every month. When she isn't working on her daily post for Jennypurr she has plenty of writing to do outside the blog as she works as a freelance writer and also as an editor for A Little Opulent, an online lifestyle magazine. After graduating from Lancaster University last summer she figured out that she would concentrate on online content 

creation.

She divides her posts into four categories: Life, blogging, freelancing and beauty. Sometimes these categories can't be kept apart - that's what happens when you write what you think and want to instead of sticking to the rules - but she doesn't struggle to keep the blog's structure upright.

Still, Jen does not work only with passion but also with professionalism. She actually keeps the business woman and the girl in her early twenties in perfect balance. On the one hand her posts are advice on everyday life but never without at least a chunk of help on workflow and evolving yourself and your writing.

Her most important message - in my words - is still: Don't do it the best way possible, do it your way. If you want to learn more about what she means by that, need advice on freelancing and blogging and still want to get updated on the best in beauty, just stop by at http://www.jennypurr.co.uk/ or visit her on Bloglovin.

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Blogs To Read - What I Read

Here we have another series I thought would be nice to have in the blog. This actually means that each of my Saturday series will - together with the Hamburg Longboard/Bike Spots - release in a three-week pattern.

As you know (If not you didn't read any of my recent posts to the end), I recently joined Bloglovin, the perfect website to keep up with all the blogs you follow. Also it is perfect to explore blogs through all the different blogging platforms that are out there. Although I don't have a reach that would be useful for the bloggers I feature, I want to show you some nice blogs to read. And if you know a blog I might like and you would like to have featured just tell me in the comments of any of the Blogs To Read posts. To get this going I wanted to get this pre-series post out this Wednesday so the first feature will release on Saturday.


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