Sometimes I wish I could stretch the length of my days to let’s say… 30 hours…
There are so many amazing travel blogs, with lots of wonderful stories and awesome photos. My list is growing, day after day, and I know (sadly…) that I will never be able to follow all this wonderful people as they would deserve. So… I hope someone else will do! 
Every Saturday I will share my ‘Weekly Top 7 Blogs‘, a little tribute to great travelers and writers.
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Week #8
Who said that a family cannot travel the world and experience amazing adventures?
All right, it might be more difficult, that’s why I admire the families on-the-road and my admiration grows stronger when I read about single moms traveling with their children. Here are my Top 7 favorites, but there are certainly many more that I still have to discover.
Family on Bikes | A Family Cycles the Roads Less Traveled from the Arctic to Patagonia
Our Travel Lifestyle | How One Couple with Two Young Children Decided to Change their Lifestyle & Travel the World
Raising Miro | On the Road of Life
Rider By My Side | A Man, A Woman, and And a 5-Year-Old Boy
SoulTravelers3 | Come join us on our family adventure around the world!
The World is Calling | Can You Hear It?
Travels with a Nine Year Old | Mother and Son Travel the World
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Week #7
A brand new selection for the new Weekly Top 7. Great travel communities, good tips, lots of ideas and resources, awesome people to share information with.
GlobeTrooper | Find travel partners and explore the world together.
GotSaga | A worldwide community of people with a passion for traveling and cultural diversity.
Matador Travel | For Passionate Travelers
SoSauce | Travel Geek Blog
Travel Blog Exchange | A community of new media travel writers who share the journey.
Traveldudes | For Travelers, By Travelers!
Travel With a Mate | A community of travel bloggers offering their advice, destination reviews and interviews with global nomads.
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Week #6
This week it’s all about great travel writing. I mean, there are lots of good reads between travel bloggers, but the Top 7 highlighted this week are not only established bloggers, they’re professional travel writers, having their work featured in printed and online publications. If you’re not yet, I suggest you to follow them. So many awesome stories, and very often providing an interesting and uncommon angle.
501 Places | Sharing the world with you
Inside the Travel Lab | Exploring the Art & Science of Unusual Journeys
Roaming Tales | Travels on Planet Earth
Sophies’s World | Sophie Wanders the World, Mostly With Kids, Sometimes Solo
Travelogged | International Travel, Vacation Planning Tips, Travel Photography, Deals and Lots More
What a Trip | Travels from Northern California
Wild Junket | A Rollercoaster Ride of Adventures Around the World
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Week #5
Besides awesome travel writing, there are many amazing travel photo blogs feeding my inspiration and making me dream, with my eyes wide open. Everyday I discover new stunning sources and that’s part of the strong attraction I feel for social networks. So far, I’m pleased to share my top 7 favorite travel photo blogs. I hope you’ll check them out. There are so many talented people!
A Photo A Day from Planet Earth | A picture posted daily taken somewhere on this Planet
Canvas of Light | The photography of Daniel Nahabedian, a travel photographer traveling around the world
Mitchell Kanashkevich | The Blog
Picture the Planet | Travel photography from around the world
Stuck in Custom | A Daily Photo Adventure with Trey Ratcliff
The Carey Adventures | Explore, Inspire, Educate
The Digital Trekker | I shoot for mostly NGOs and nonprofits. I photograph images of the unknown, the forgotten and the helpless. These are often the stories that most people overlook
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Week #4
Walking, Hiking, Mountains, Outdoors… A passion shared by many awesome bloggers. My favorites? Here they are!
Bald Hiker | The ramblings of Paul Steele
Easy Hiker | Feel the sun on your back the wind in your face
Hike Bike Travel | Leigh McAdam love for travel, adventure and outdoor activities
Hoop Trek Travel | Hooping and hiking round the world
LiveTravelMountains | A blog on everything mountains
Our Hiking Blog | Informing you about bushwalking, hiking & backpacking
The MountainWorld Blog | by climber and photographer Jake Norton
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Week #3
This week, my Top 7 list showcases couples traveling around the world. Quite a different experience from solo travel. And a different perspective. I you don’t know them yet, check out these blogs. Lots of great stuff!
HappyTimeBlog | Go Backpacking Around The World
Round We Go | A Journey Around the World
The Road Forks | Where Travel And Food Intersect
Traveling Canucks | Canadians Exploring Our World
Two Backpackers | A couple backpacking around the world
TwoGoRTW | Planning, Preparing And Packing For A RTW Trip
yTravel Blog | Its All About The Memories
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Week #2
Celebrating ‘solo travel‘… Not whichever…. Women solo traveling. Yes, I am one of them and I can tell you… Things are harder for a woman. And the ones taking the jump are really brave!
Almost Fearless | Work Wirelessly. Travel the World. Do Anything.
Bacon is Magic | Travel, food, photography and everything in between.
Runaway Juno | Let the journey begin!
Nomadic Chick | Cubicle Dweller to Traveling Gipsy
Solo Traveler | Solo travel tips, destinations, stories… the blog for those who travel alone
Travelholica | The Best Addiction
Travel Reportage | Travel reportage photography blog
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Week #1
This week, it’s all about adventure and people on the road. Great stories, unusual places, awesome photos and all the best ingredients for a pleasant read.
- | Discovering the world, one culture at a time
- | Around the World, Low and Slow
- | Travel and Life Experiences of a Corporate American Runaway
- | On the Road to finding Home
- | Canada’s Adventure Couple
Traveling Savage | Round the world, one month at a time
- | A new breed of explorer
What a great idea! I’m familiar with many of these, but this’ll give me loads to look through. I’d love to start something similar on my own site. Cheers Simon! I’ve really enjoyed following your blog, as well.
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Thank you, Angela. Indeed, I stopped updating the ‘weekly Top 7′ a long time ago. Maybe it’s time to restart?
Thanks for these links – so many new interesting blogs to follow, and to get inspirations from!
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Thank you for including us! You have some amazing blogs included in this list so we’re really flattered to be included too. I love your idea of adding to the list each week – I’ve found some new ones to follow thanks!
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Great site! Feel free to check out my London/Travel blog.
Thanks,
Wendy
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Fun post, thanks for including us! We’ve had so many wonderful experiences these last 5 years on our open ended world tour to 39 countries on 5 continents, that we are passionate about letting other families know how easy and cheap and luxurious it can be!!
We’ve lived really large on just 23 dollars a day even in expensive places like Bora Bora and are monolinguals raising a fluent trilingual/triliterate so want other families to know how enriching family travel can be.
Love your entire list here & so appreciate you including families!
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I love your list Simon, and I love it even more that you are adding to it each week so that we can see all the great travel bloggers that came before. Fantastic idea and initiative. It is such a nice thing to be able to call most of them friends now as well.
How kind of you, Todd. Thank you so much! I’m glad you like the ‘Weekly Top 7′, in my mind it is a way to thank all the awesome travel bloggers and writers that I happened to meet (virtually and, in a few cases, personally) and who share their passion. And since I believe that passion is ‘contagious’…. I’m spreading the word!
I’m totally with you, with the 30 hours day thing.
Sometime it’s just too short, right? I’m so happy to see my name on it and you are doing just so much work! And wonderful job. 
Keep on wild!!
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Keep on wild… that’s a nice encouragement, Juno!
Fab list of travel blogs you have going here!
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Yes, there are so many wonderful bloggers and travel writers! Planning a special Weekly Top 7 on Asian blogs soon. Stay tuned…
Thank you so much dear Simon for the mention – You are the best!
My pleasure, Patricia. I’m sure lots of people already know and follow GotSaga, but for the ones who still are not I’m sure they’ll find plenty of great contents. Cheers!
Just discovering this list now. THANK YOU for including me!
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My pleasure, Leigh. Love your blog!
uhh, hate to break this to ya but AlmostFearless.com doesn’t travel alone at all. In fact she travels with her husband and 1 year old baby everywhere.
Thank you for including me on this list. A lot of great company here. A few of these blogs are new to me. Now I have a lot more reading to do! Anytime you are in Malaysia, give me a ring and we will go out shooting.
Going out shooting with you? Whoa! That would be fantastic! I’d love to learn how to take better photos, it’s so fascinating…
Ouch! Thank you for pointing out my mistake. Must have had my head in the clouds…
I follow most of them…but a couple of new ones snuck in there. Thanks!
Awesome list of great bloggers – thanks for the mention!
Thanks so much for including us. We are really excited and appreciate it a lot. There are some great couples out there building a life time of memories together and trying not to kill one another- he he!
Thanks for including us in your list. What an excellent idea to introduce people to amazing new blogs. We follow almost all that you have listed!
My pleasure, Dave & Deb. I must say that I still can’t believe how many talented and interesting people there are around the world.
Enjoy your adventures. I’ll continue to follow them!
Thanks for including me! For anyone considering traveling solo – man or woman – there are so many of us doing it and we were all afraid in the beginning but it’s really a wonderful experience.
Simon, thanks so much for including me! It was a pleasure to meet you in person.
Yeah, it was great to meet you and hopefully our path will cross again! Enjoy India, and share a lot of photos and stories! Ciao
Thank you for including TravelholicA, Michael! Hugs to you from Brazil.
My pleasure, dear. Only that… er…. sorry to let you know that I’m not Michael
Can I still have hugs from beautiful Brazil? 
Thank so much for including me in this awesome list! I even found a new one to follow!!
Oh, Sherry, it would have been impossible not to include you. I love your blog and your amazing photos.
Really you found someone new? I did not think this would be possible… Glad about that. This means that there are more awesome people throughout the world than we can imagine. And that’s one thing that makes life beautiful!
Much appreciated! It’s incredible to be included right alongside six other sites that I can’t enough of each week myself. Actually, there’s not one site on that list that isn’t at the top of my Reader!
great list — read and follow all of them. All excellent!
Thank you, Michael. I’m glad you follow these awesome bloggers, they’re all well worth to be read. Cheers!