Elena: e-tivity2

Hello!!

Searching the Internet for blogs, I put in the tags 'travels' and came up with a blog called 'Travel Pod' (The Web's original travel blog), which people use to create their personal travel blog; here I found two blogs made by two girls (Annie Mitchell and Jessica), that I found interesting to compare.
I chose these blogs because I like travelling very much and I'm always curious to know something new about other cultures. I noticed that these two blogs are structured in the same way; the initial page is divided into three sections: 'More about me', 'My travel blogs' and 'My favourite websites'. In the first part, the girls introduced themselves: they put a map of their travelogues and wrote something about their personality, such as birthplace, profession, interests, hobbies and so on; in the second part, they put their travel blogs, in which they described their travel, putting also many photos; finally, in the third part, they wrote their favourite websites.
Reading these two blogs, I noticed that the two girls used informal language and they also put many photos.They both used links to guide the reader to know more about them, their cities and their travel in particular,which is the aim of Travel Pod. I found interesting and funny to watch their photos, which gave me an idea of these two girls: Jessica seems to have travelled more than Annie, but they both tell us their travel using an everyday language.
The second blog I visit is completely different from the previous ones; it's called 'Misadventures in Italy, my stomach and the world. Food, recipes, travel.
In this very funny blog a man speaks about his travel and misadventures in Italy, which concearn food in particular. He put many links which guide the reader to other food blog or websites; furthermore, he gave a detailed description of his misadventures. I like very much the story about the 'granita', in which he said that he tried this new drink but he didn't like it because it hasn't got enough sugar... try to read it!!
I noticed that he used informal language and he also put many photos to describe his travel and to make the reader aware of what he ate.
My final observations are that bloggers usually put links to the most important word in their texts, which they think it's interesting to emphasise and which can open new discussions. The style is very often informal, especially in personal blogs, as I have still analysed.
That's all!