Month 3 - Report Card

This is more a point in time for me to look back at, rather than anything else. So feel free to bail now.

When I started out with this blog, I said I would continue to review whether 'it's working for me' or not. Three months in and it's not.

TL;DR

I started this blog on 16th July 2025. That happened to be about a month after completing a long period of travelling and on reflection I think being a little lost with what to do with my time. I set out to document my travels and share some of my accumulated knowledge with like minded people.

My Self Assessed Report - Can't Be Arsed

That's the overall assessment that I'm giving myself for the third month. Maintaining growth of my website and exposure on Facebook became a distracting driver to the extent that I was posting a few times a day and it started to feel like a job - and I don't want one of those!

So I'm drawing a line under progress for now - and opting to simply review and document travel and travel plans.

What Went Well

Content Creation

I've got a good set of content on the Norwegian Coastal Route, which is served by Havila Voyages and Hurtigruten. These posts continue to prove popular - though I've had a couple of haters. I'll keep in with the facebook groups that I'm part of and continue to update key posts where I feel it's needed. When I get closer to doing the Norwegian Coastal Route again - I'll do a complete review of the key information. I'm documenting our adventures and observations of Singapore, and activiely planning for trips to Dubai, Abu Dhabi, Guernsey, Japan, as well as a longer trip to South America.

Engagement Stats (after 3 months)

With the grades that I've awarded myself in this report.

Facebook - B

The facebook tools that I've now got tell me loads of stuff. I'm not going to pay any attention to these going forward - but to close out the stats for first 90 days;

• Views (number of times your content was played or displayed) - 950k.

• Engagement (number of reactions, comments, shares and clicks) - Dropped, as I've been less involved.

• Reach seems to be an important number (so will start to track that) - Dropped, as I've been less involved.

Much of the content and interaction continues to be buried in specific interest groups - I'll continue to post content where I think it will be read - i.e. Singapore travel related content in Singapore travel related facebook groups.

Instagram - B

Got a better handle of this and enjoying it a little more.

Website - C

Expect to improve with less, better content.

Goals For Month 3

• Post when I feel like it

• Less, better posts

• Take more better photos

  
  

That's all for now.

Happy travels!