Write your trips somewhere that won't disappear.
A travel blog that stays yours.
Rain until four, then the harbour went gold. Ate too much fried plaice standing up and watched the ferry come in. Slept on the boat.
Place and time come out of the photo
Your camera already wrote down where you were and when. Ortszeit reads it — the capture time and the GPS tag — and dates the post from the photograph rather than from the upload. Write up Tuesday on Friday and it still lands on Tuesday.
You confirm the place name before it is attached. Nothing is guessed silently, because a wrong place is worse than no place. No pin-dropping, no tagging.
Yours to keep
A blog is a folder. Markdown files with YAML front matter, the photos next to them, one blog.yaml at the top. Open it in any text editor and the whole archive is legible without us.
The format is published and versioned, so it is not ours to change quietly. Export is always available — including after a paid plan lapses, and including if you never pay at all.
Fast, quiet pages
No tracking scripts, no feed, no algorithm, no comments, no follower count. A post is text, photographs, and one line of metadata.
Pages come in under 30 KB and render without waiting on a webfont. On the paid plan they run on your own domain.
Bring your old trips
Import a Polarsteps export, a Day One journal, or a Google Takeout. Takeout is the interesting one: it turns location history and photos into a trip skeleton — the days, the places, the photo clusters — and leaves the writing to you.
Everything arrives as drafts. Nothing publishes itself.
Start with one day.
Pick the photos from that day, write three lines, publish. The place and the date are already in the files.