Another helpful post, David, especially to someone who's in the same early stages you were, and worrying about the same things. It's good to be reminded that all you can do is write, and write the best you can.

As a travel writer, I'm always being asked how to break in to what people see as a very attractive area of writing. I used to send long emails of advice but as no-one ever wrote back to say 'thanks', I now tell them what a travel writer colleague tells them - travel as much as you can, write as much as you can, and send it to as many travel editors as you can.

Keep the blogs coming.