On writing via Facebook

My travelogue posts have a spasmodic character, and they reflect the spasmodic way they have been authored. The travelogue pattern I have established in this sojourn to Greece has been:

• Walk 100 m
• Take 5 photos
• Spend an hour in a cafe writing commentary about those photos,
  • often with tangential excursions into other aspects of Greek history and culture,
  • as an awkward mix of speech to text and Swype to text (for when the vocabulary or the proper names get too much for Google)
• Walk off in the wrong direction
• After 10 minutes come to realise I am walking off in the wrong direction
• Get back to where I was before
• Repeat
• Glance cursorily at the stream of Likes the posts get, especially once people are awake in Australia
• At the end of the day, review, and fix the most outrageous speech recognition errors
• A week later, copy paste all my Facebook posts into a sequence of blog posts, and add even more links

Like I said before, with reference to Hull, I treat tourism as an excuse for writing prompts. In fact, I make a point of looking for things that would be quirky to write about…