The world seen through social media (or not)

Something has been nagging at me, since returning from our world trip. Perhaps it’s best described as the impact social media is having on travel. Interestingly it’s been talked about very recently in The Guardian in an opinion piece entitled “Instagrammers are sucking the life and soul out of travel”. While we didn’t necessarily plan our trip to be able to take iconic pictures, having our own Instagram feed (which we’ve made private now that the trip is over, although I’ll accept connections if it’s obvious you’re a reader of this blog) meant that we weren’t completely immune from its effects. Plus there’s this blog, of course, although I’ve tended to share more pictures and commentary here… which I hope dillutes the effect somewhat.

On the one hand this feeling is that the pictures we’ve taken – and even the descriptions we’ve given – can’t really do justice to the experiences we’ve had. I don’t mean this is an arrogant  “you had to…

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