To pack or not to pack? That is the question

Its all in the name

Having spent the last few months planning our 6 month trip using mostly other peoples travel blogs to get the ‘insider’ knowledge on visas, transport and how long to spend in each country, its clear that writing a travel blog is definitely top on the list when joining the backpacker club!

Type into google "how to name a travel blog” and you’ll end up with a blog (no surprise there!) that lists the top 100 travel blogs for some inspiration… here’s what we found:

The obvious:

Go backpacking, Travels of Adam, Two go round the world, Heather on her travels

The memorable: 
One Ticket Phil, Travelvice, Migrationology, Travellogged, Leave your daily hell

The ones you’re not sure you want to read:

Travel Rants Blog, Delicious Baby, A pair of panties, Spot Cool Stuff

And the downright weird: Hole in the donut, Cheese web, Bacon is magic, Beers and Beans (Hmm there seems to be a theme going on here!)

So having gone through the full list of top blogs we decided we needed a name that is:

1. Easy to remember and available as a URL – so all our lovely friends and family have no excuse to say we haven’t kept in touch
2. Makes you at least want to click and take a look – otherwise we’ll just end up be writing posts for each other
3. Doesn't involve random items of food!

And when you still can’t come up with anything that works…then just ask your lovely creative friends who work in advertising to do it for you…

...And Ta-Dah you get www.beachesandbackpacks.co.uk

Welcome to our travel blog mash up of memories, stories, photos, top tips, inspiration for things to do…oh and I’m sure there will be plenty of what not to do too!

We hope you enjoy!

Jules and Chris x