Sunday, June 23, 2013

My Trip (Without the Blog?)

In a little over a week, I will be leaving for five weeks. I will be gone for the entire month of July and returning in early August. I am heading to a camp where I will have computer access but not a lot of time for it, and limited kitchen access and not much time to cook or bake. Plus all of my meals are already provided, but groceries are not. Also, this camp is a completely French camp - that means all communication, speaking, reading, music, websites, etc. must be done solely in French. 
I am not sure what I will do about my blog over the course of those five weeks. I may not have much time for blogging at all, and if I do, I certainly won't have much time to bake, so my blog posts would be a little different than the usual. It may feature more articles or critics and less recipes and pictures. If I am able to blog though, it will have to be completely in French. That may change my viewer audience slightly (or a lot). 
So I suppose I have a few options here:

  1. Type up enough (English) articles, previously made baked goods, master recipe posts and have them automatically update everyday for the duration of my trip.
  2. Try to write (in French) about some sort of food experience I have had each day. This could be meals I ate, things I made, bakeries I've visited, etc. I could also just do this every few days when I have something interesting to report.
  3. Start up an easy column to update everyday (in French). This could be something like my alphabet posts, which would give me 26 days of posts different from my English ones, as I would be listing the French words for the foods.This could also include a picture with a short description series, or sharing a helpful hint each day.
  4. Take a five week vacation from my blog and not update it at all. This seems like the most viable solution, but the thing is after over 700 consecutive days of posts, I hate to stop now. And I hate to leave my blog idle for that long. 
I am quite torn as to what I should do. I would greatly appreciate any feedback or suggestions to see what my viewers think. That may aid me in making my decision. 

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