Armchair travel

[shewhomust]

weegoddess has lured me onto PINterest. She makes use of the social networking potential of the site to promote her business making ethical wedding dresses; LJ gives me all the social networking I need, but I was interested in the potential of PINterest as a visual way of saving links, specifically to pretty pictures - the sort of thing I do occasionally post here, but a more suitable way of saving links about which I have nothing more to say than "Ooh! Pretty picture!" Getting the thing set up was a bit of a struggle - all the names I could think of were either taken or invalid, and it insists on connecting to a FaceBook or Twitter profile, which makes me uneasy - but such as it is, this is it, and having trawled through some past LJ posts and pinned the links, this evening I'm working through some back issues of the Guardian travel supplement, experimenting with pinning suggestions for places to visit. Just to be on the safe side, the text version follows (because words are words, and you can't trust pictures).

A slightly irritating article about the Montagne Noire (which we crossed when we visited Minerve) contains the information that Montolieu in the Aude is a book town - or rather, a book village. (Here's the Aude tourist office, just in case.)

I hadn't expected to find much to tempt me in an issue devoted to Turkey, but this article about walking in the north east is magical.

And that's as far as we go, because I seem to have broken it - a pity, because this article on short walks in Corsica (the Not the GR20 option) looks seriously good. Oh, well, another time...

Comments

[athenais.livejournal.com]

I keep meaning to do more with my Pinterest page, but I just don't get around to surfing the web much.

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

Sounds as if, for you, it's a solution looking for a problem; in which case...

I'd be sorry if it distracted you from LJ or Flickr.

[weegoddess.livejournal.com]

Hee! Glad to contribute to your delinquency. (though, 'arnchair'? was that a pun that I missed?) And how wonderful is it that you are finding new ways to use Pinterest even within the established popular parameters that have been set. I'm not surprised, of course. I think that one of the great joys of Pinterest is the planning and the oh wow's that we can glean from viewing so much world through the Internets.

Here's great pinning and great dreaming. ;-)

[shewhomust.livejournal.com]

'arnchair'? was that a pun that I missed?

No, I just can't type; of course it should have been AMchair...

And yes, PINterest is pretty addictive!