Hi, I’m Julie, the bear behind the blog. This is a collection of posts about me and about blogging – the stuff that doesn’t really fit into outdoors, adventures or travel. Everyone’s nosy and this is probably the place to come if you want to know about me.
I don’t think I’ve ever actually said what I was doing in Georgia in the first place. Usually “what I’m doing” is going somewhere because I wanted to but Tbilisi wasn’t actually a random whim. I went to Traverse 24, a not-quite-annual conference that brings travel creators together for a weekend of talks and workshops… More Traverse 24: at the conference
This was going to be the first blog post about Georgia & Traverse but it’s going to be a reintroduction instead. I don’t know how many people went off with my Instagram and my blog but in case there are any new people coming this way, I thought I’d start by telling you who I… More A reintroduction to me!
Well, 2024 on the blog started well! In everything else that was going on, I forgot to finish today’s post and I let Thursday’s sneak out early (and when it was still only a paragraph long too!). Idiot. That’s because I’ve not been properly at my desk recently. I’m back now! Going to get everything… More A reintroduction for 2024
Well, here we go, I guess. Time to talk about the one weirdness I try to keep quiet. I have ARFID, Avoidant Restrictive Food Intake Disorder. It’s an eating disorder, not one of the famous ones and it does impact my life, although mostly not in the way you might expect. What is ARFID? It… More Travelling with ARFID
What’s this? A Friday post? But the polar bear posts Mondays and Thursdays! Well, I’m doing Blogmas so there’s a winter/Christmas/ice/outdoors post every day until Christmas Eve. I’m going a bit old-school lifestyle blog today. This is a day in my life – and specifically, it’s a day in my life in winter. Now, finding… More A winter day in my life
My experience is that most people do a “life update!” as an explanation for a long absence but I haven’t been anywhere. I’m not going anywhere either. But things are changing behind the scenes and I thought I’d do a post about them. So, you may have noticed we’ve been living through a plague. I… More A life and blog update
I’m mostly past this small crisis in “how can a travel blog exist when I can’t travel?!” and normal function is resuming. Actually, behind the scenes it’s already resumed. I found a pad of graph paper I’ve never used and it is rapidly being covered in plans and ideas and I’m scheduling stuff again. But… More Hi, I’m Juliet: Meet the blogger behind the bear
I don’t normally do favourites posts because I’m not a lifestyle YouTuber but these are weird and unprecedented times and I thought, since no one’s travelling, it might not be a bad idea to share some of the things I’ve been enjoying lately. (No affiliate links here: Amazon kicked me off their programme for failing… More Stay At Home Storytelling: Lockdown favourites
This is supposed to be the first of four to six posts about my trip to Iceland in March but if you’re reading this, it means I didn’t go. At time of writing, it’s Sunday 15th March, the end of the week in which things got serious and I’m leaning towards “better all round not… More What can a travel blogger do when she can’t travel?
I’ve published two posts a week every week since at least the beginning of 2017, maybe earlier. Every week without fail. In the absence of doing any promotion, I’m finding the strategy of very regular posting works wonders for my statistics. But it’s now September 16th and I’ve spent the last three weeks in Russia.… More How I organise my blog