ABC Award
What a fantastic way to start the New Year! I’ve just received the ABC Awesome Blog Content Award, courtesy of Alyson Sheldrake at the Thought Palette.
In accordance with Alyson’s instructions, here’s an alphabet of things that matter to me:
A: art
B: Barcelona
C: cheese
D: Daisy
E: exploring
F: flowers
G: garden
H: home
I: India
J: journeys
K: kindness
L: Lisbon
M: Mike
N: nature
O: opportunity
P: Portugal
Q: quirky
R: reading
S: swirls
T: travel
U: underwater world
V: value for money
W: writing
X: eXtra
Y: yoga
Z: Zanzibar
I’ll be adding other ABC worthy blogs to this post soon. In the meantime, please check out the ones that Alyson has already singled out at http://thethoughtpalette.co.uk/abc-award/.
Somewhat belatedly, here are some of the blogs that I think deserve this award:
Downsizing and other truths A bitterly funny account of working for “The Firm” in the Algarve.
Algarve Blog About moving to and looking around the Algarve.
Lisbon Lux Well-written and researched travel information about Lisbon in English and Portuguese.
Lucy Pepper Irreverent observations about Portugal, fashion, internet trolls and more.
Portuguese Language Lessons Daily hints and tips for English speakers learning Portuguese.
About a Gadabout Witty travel tales from Dave, a Gadabout.
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Hi, I'm Julie, a British expat living in central Portugal. I blog about my experiences of living in Portugal and travelling around this diverse and beautiful country. Whether you're thinking about moving to Portugal, looking for some out-of-the-ordinary trips within Portugal or just fancy a spot of armchair travelling, read on and enjoy.
Congratulations on your ABC Award!
You may be interested to know that I have now set up a Facebook group for all bloggers who have been given the ABC Award – a place for you to meet new bloggers, and share and support each other. You can join the group here:
https://www.facebook.com/groups/ABCaward/?bookmark_t=group
Please also let any other bloggers, that you know have been given the award, know about this group too – then we can all ‘spread the word’
I have also set up a Facebook page – the ABC Award – where you can now add links to all of your blog posts and writing – share your work with a new audience, gain new readers, and find out what other ABC Award bloggers are writing about.
You can find the page here:
https://www.facebook.com/ABCaward?bookmark_t=page
Just ‘like’ the page and get started – and do let all your blog readers know about this page – I believe that all of our blogs can only be improved by letting our readers know about other blogs – that way you will also have new readers discover you too!
Happy blogging – and congratulations again on the ABC Award – you’re awesome!
glad you liked the award – it really does seem to have started something!!!
here’s to a very exciting blogging 2012!
well done Julie. You deserve it. x