mybigadventures.com

After finally adding the forgotten details page, it got me thinking about what else to improve. I started to look at the social networking side of things. There's been a few facebook sharing links around on the site for a while, but there's always been issues with them displaying correctly. Facebook uses a system called open graph which provides a bit of structure to the content you share. The open graph system relies on meta data on the website - for those that don't know, meta data is basically data about data. The meta data in this case, provides additional information about the thing you are trying to share. So after a bit of an update and lots of checking on the facebook scraper, blog posts and photo albums can now be shared from the site, and should provide some contextual information related to where you are clicking the share button. It's certainly not perfect right now, but it works! To complement this wonderful new sharing functionality I've also added some fancy new buttons with a little help from sharingbuttons.io/. That's about all for now, in the mean time, go mad, share something!

Hello one and all contrary to popular belief we are still alive and well. Sorry about the long pause in updates, tinternet access has been a bit of an issue so we've only popped on a couple of times to check email and book hostels. I'm afraid this is only a short one as we have to go out and get breakfast and get on with the day. We'll see if we can get some pictures and what not uploaded soon, but these computers appear to be locked down so might be a little while yet. For those that have lost our progress, we are now in Berlin, Germany having been to Solvorn in northern Norway, Oslo (again) and Copenhagen, Denmark since the last blog! Hope everyone is well, cheerio ta ta for now! xx 

. . . hello from Amsterdam, today we went to the Heineken Experience where we got the chance to see how a beer bottle lives. Looked awesome! Lots of rattling, zipping around conveyer belts, and then wiggling into boxes where you get to sleep for a while, then you get cracked open to momentarily enjoy the party before getting tipped down some drunkards throat, awesome no?

Anyways Amsterdam is rather nice, and the weather hasn't let us down with lots of sunshine again! Its very scenic here with lots of old buildings and such like. Tomorrow we go to Bruges in Belgium for a few days before finishing off the trip in Paris hopefully including a trip to Euro Disney! For those that are familiar with the planned route you may have noticed a few changes, we were supposed to finish in Amsterdam but accomodation has been a bit troublesome.

Anyways that'll have to be all, internet time is heavily limited here, see you all very soon - only 9 days left I think .  . .cheerio ta ta