As we all have to say ‘goodbye’ to the 2012 and greet the forthcoming 2013, here at Hitch-Hikers’ Handbook we’ve decided to make a little summary of our first year as travel bloggers!

Hitch-Hikers’ Handbook was launched on 18th March 2012. Since then we have:

• written 102 posts
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• been visited 59,150 times by people from 143 countries
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• got over 1000 “likes” on our blog
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• been awarded a “Blog of the Week” award by Wanderlust Travel Magazine
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• run 22 Travel Photography Competitions
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• been promoted on Freshly Presses and The Daily Post
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• had our beautiful logo made by a couple of professional graphic designers
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• had our first interview by orbitorun.pl
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• been featured on BBC News, BBC Mundo, Yahoo Travel, La Vanguardia, Wanderlust, Travelfish and many more.
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• had our first Hitch-Hikers’ Handbook postcards printed
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• Managed to gather 375 blog followers, 63 Twitter followers and 1401 wonderful friends on Facebook.

Visits from around the world in 2012

Here are some funny search engine terms, people typed before finding our website :)

Thanks for being with us in 2012 and we hope you’ll stay with us next year too!

If you have any ideas for posts, tips or competitions we could do this year, let us know in the comments, we’d love to hear your ideas!