The first post - wow!

I guess 'hello' is as good a place to start as any so hello and welcome to my new blog. I had the idea for The Two Week Backpacker one lunchtime after struggling to find inspiration and ideas for backpacking holidays and that don't involve paying a tour company thousands of pounds but also are a bit off the beaten track because I don't want to share a beach with a fat bald englishman in an England shirt doing the dance from Gazza's hit 'Fog on the Tyne'.

I mulled over where I could find such nuggets of advice and I thought who better to ask than the great global travelling community. People have been everywhere, maybe they can help me choose where to go? Maybe they can save me money and maybe, just maybe, they would like to send me stories about places they have been so other travellers can read them! I thought to myself that this idea had everything - friends, travel, adventure - brilliant!

So, here we are at the birth of The Two Week Backpacker. This is only going to work if you send me stuff to post as I haven't been everywhere. I have been to Malaysia, Egypt, Singapore, Germany, France, Thailand, Australia, Jordan, France and Wales but there is more, so much more and I want to learn about it, if you want to share it. So please email me your pics (up to 2 per story), your travel stories (condensed) and any tips, advice, links to great sites or anything travel you have found that is cool to djennay@hotmail.com and let's make this baby work!