Want to start a blog, but don’t have the slightest clue about page layout and html? Fancy posting all your pictures online, but don’t want to succumb to the craze of social networking?

While sites such as Facebook offer great photo uploading and, along with Myspace and Twitter, give some sort of blogging mechanism.

Personally, I use Blogger for my travel writing, but without any computer knowledge, the html can be confusing, and you need about a week to wait for the photo/video uploading.

None of these sites has ever really managed to appeal to the travelling fraternity, with blogging being merely a sidebar, and photographs becoming lost in a sea of other applications and updates.

My Life of Travel offers something different. It enables you to put together a travel blog of any size, with quick photograph organization. A great feature is that it lets you plot your journey on an interactive travel map. As an easy, but maybe less individual, way of keeping friends and family back home up-to-date with your journeys, it is a fantastic tool for a backpacker fed up of sitting in front of a laptop.

One last thing, at the moment, My Life of Travel is offering a fantastic competition to win a round the world ticket. Check it out, and try your luck!