Five Years Of I’m Just A Girl – Five Years Of Blogging

Last Updated on 1st December 2023

As I sit down to write this post, I’m struggling to believe that it’s been five whole years since I first opened a blank WordPress document and typed up a post titled ‘50 things about me‘. So much has changed in my life since those early days of I’m Just A Girl but one thing remains the same; my utter love, passion and adoration for this tiny corner of the internet.

Reflecting back on the last five years and realising that it’s been an entire half a decade since I began this journey, I actually feel a bit teary and emotional. The opportunities that this blog has given me over the last five years is truly unbelievable and while it’s been down to an awful lot of hard work, determination and just a smidge of luck here and there, I still find it difficult to wrap my head around that this small internet space is both my hobby and my full-time job.

I’ve made it a tradition over the last five years to write a post on my ‘blogiversary’; you can catch four years, three years, two years and one year here, and today’s post is yet another year I can add to my list of blogging endeavours.

Despite redirecting this blog into a largely travel-focused website in early 2018, the last year has actually seen me do the littlest amount of travel that I’ve done since this blog actually started, thanks to a tiny inconvenience known as Coronavirus.

Since I last sat down to write this kind of post in October 2020 when I celebrated my four years of blogging, so much has changed in my life and I’ve been through some of the biggest life changes I could imagine. In November last year, I lost my beloved grandad to Covid which hit me like a tonne of bricks. Mercifully, I found extreme comfort in this little corner of the internet and writing about my grief on my blog helped me to unpick a lot of the emotions that I was feeling about that time in my life.

This last year has also seen some incredible changes in mine and Matt’s lives when we bought and fully self-converted a campervan entirely from scratch in May; a dream of ours that was waiting to come to fruition for so many years. I also became an aunty for the first time in September; something that I would have never even dreamed of happening this time last year.

Of course, there have also been plenty of blogging highlights over the last year as well and despite running a travel blog during a global pandemic when no one was really travelling, I’ve not only managed to keep this little space afloat, but I’m delighted that I’ve managed to keep it thriving as well.

I’ve worked with some of my absolute dream brands since last year, including Jet2, Visit Northumberland, Tinggly, Regatta, Heavenly Desserts and more and I’ve also been nominated for not one, but two blogging awards; the first in the travel category at the inaugural Yorkshire Blogger Awards and secondly in the Digital Women Blogger of the Year category.

I can’t even begin to put into words how much these achievements mean to me, which is actually quite ironic considering I was nominated for writing for a travel blog!

I’m hoping the next year will hold many more travel adventures for Matt and I and while I have thoroughly enjoyed writing posts about UK travel and places a lot closer to home this year, I am really looking forward to more international adventures and sharing everything with you guys along the way. I’m excited to take our campervan on many more adventures and I’m looking forward to hopefully exploring many new countries in the next year as the world starts to open back up again.

I say this every year, but it honestly continues to astound me how much love and support I receive online for both my blog and social media endeavours. Your continued support will never cease to amaze me and it humbles me immensely to know that I get to do this for a living. Thank you so, so much for every single blog visit, comment, like and share and for your words of support and encouragement every step of the way, it really does mean everything to me.

Whether you’ve been here for the whole five years of my blogging journey, or you’re a brand new reader, thank you for being a part of this experience with me and I hope you’ll stick around for the next five years!

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