Eating Albion

With apologies to Max Gogarty, medialand’s most short lived and most despised blogger – poor chap.

Hello. I’m Andrew Webb, I’m 32 and live on top of a hill in south London.

At the minute, I occasionally eat in restaurants with other hungry time poor people, I’m writing a book, and doing images for Skins; spending any sort of money I earn on food and comfortable practical jeans, and drinking my way to a financially blighted six-month trip to.. Britain.

I’m kinda sh**ting myself about travelling. Well, not so much the travelling part. It’s Ipswich that scares me. The cold, the roads, the snakebite and black, Australian bar staff. Don’t get me wrong, I’m excited. And I just know when I get out of the car and into the maelstrom that is Macclesfield – well, actually, I don’t know how I’ll react.

etc. etc…

So Max got his fingers burned, and the Guardian should know better, but all of this raises the question about just how do you write a successful travel blog? Well you pick something that’s not dishwater dull and write about it in an interesting way for a start.

And how should this project work? I’ve now a sponsor on board – more on that soon – how much of an impact is that going to have?  All I know is I don’t want to make anything like this pile of doggy doo, the Mercedes 2000 project. Hey, where’s the content? Wait, there it is, on a sub page squished right down the bottom.  As for the design, the layout and quality – urgh! I have it on good authority that the people behind this had the audacity to submit it for a new media award.  No what I want this project to be is somthing more like openroad.tv blogs, maps, photos, video, user submissions. wooo moma!  I think Eating Albion is a fantastic idea and I’ve spent months planning and working on. It has cost me a great deal both emotionally and financially and all I want from this project is to produce something of quality that I can be proud of, and enjoy the experience of doing it.   I wonder if Max started out with the same aspirations?