Editors’s (that would be moi) note: Oh my. Look what I’ve done. In my frustration with the WordPress App and using my new smartphone I have published the same thing twice! I won’t delete one as some of you lovely people have “liked” one and some of you have stumbled on the other one! Oh bother.
This was a smartphone practice post for our upcoming road trip through Europe. More practice needed. Or a tablet. Or the laptop on my laptop while himself argues with the new SatNav. I’m so looking forward to it all.
This message is coming to you from the cozy familiar space of my laptop and will be repeated on the other post. LOL LOL!
Which Way Now 101 
The only thing better would be great wifi and Free beer! 🙂 Looks like you are having fun…but I think you could find fun anywhere 🙂
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Trying! 🙂 Very trying himself would say. 😀
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I am trying to catch up on your where abouts. I have been offline as I have been traveling in the midwest. I once again am so happy seeing your incredible photos. Safe travels!
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Thank you Nancy and the same to you!
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hahaha awesome!
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Didn’t fool me! For long.
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😀 hahaha
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😀 😀
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Well,as you posted it twice, I thought I’d better like it twice. 🙂 Free Wi-Fi is almost unheard of here in South Africa. I’m having to use cellular internet since we moved out of our house, and it’s much more expensive that the ADSL we had there. 😦 A road trip through Europe sounds really exciting. 🙂
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We’re using cellular internet – one phone on wifi, the other has to be tethered for some reason. Then there is the non secure campsite wifi, and we have a “dongle” they call it here – a USB plug-in – for secure wifi before we got the phones! My head hurts.
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Oh yes, I know all about dongles. That’s what we use when we’re in the UK. Sending you a soothing massage for your sore head. xx
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It’s such a funny word. I’m trying to remember what it’s called in the States. A USB plug in data thingy?
Massage was lovely thanks. X
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I only received the one post…interesting. Looking forward to your travels through Europe. 🙂
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The wonders of WordPress. 😀
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You’re not the only one! I recently was practicing with the phone app and hit publish instead of save on a test post. Oops! Anyway, love the picture and title of this post!
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Misery loves company! Thanks for that. The next time I try posting from the WP app I’ll be sitting beside the laptop so I can correct any dumb mistakes immediately. I was miles away from home in the car when I realized I’d published twice. Hmmm. Can one unpublish?
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I don’t know if there is an unpublish option. I just deleted the post.
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Ah. Can’t do that as I’ve had likes and comments on both posts. Guess it gives everyone a chance for a good laugh!
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Good luck with your postings on your upcoming trip! I once blogged in Barcelona ( nice ring to that!) about the frustration of blogging on a tablet. Looking forward to your posts…and maybe free beer although I’d prefer free wifi…
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Thanks for that. I’ll certainly need it. I had more luck posting on Facebook from my phone. The WordPress app baffles me. I may just take a notebook and take lots of photos. Sort it all out when I get back!
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I completely understand how you might post twice — done it myself, actually. 🙂 My only dilemma was trying to figure out where to reply — too many choices. I can’t wait for the road trip through Europe!!
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Oh gosh, not sure how I’m going to get on with technology. I might be posting a lot of single photos from my phone and doing a lot of catch up when I return!
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Get a quick chance to look at some blogs and you have two the same… thought I was seeing double….
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It’s not you. It’s me. No need to get your eyes tested BD.
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Love the sign and that is worth showing twice.
I blogged in Europe last year on my iPad and that almost drove me bonkers. I’ve bought a wee laptop for our upcoming trip in the fall so as not to have an eyeball pop out of my head. 🙂
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Ah. Glad you warned me. As we are driving to Italy, I’ve debated taking the laptop and using the phone as a mobile hot spot. As I’m doing now. I was blogging and emailing on the phone in the car yesterday. You can see that didn’t go well! It’s not just the using a relatively teeny phone and constantly losing the signal but I can’t seem to get on with the WP app. Or is it operator error?
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In my travels I have found the WP app definitely wants a strong signal. The way I found that worked best Carol was to write the post outside of WP just on Word or Notepad. When I had the narrative done I would try to get on line with WP and copy and paste the narrative in and load the photos. Trying to write in the WP app has never worked for me. In that way you just need the internet for a moment rather than a constant signal. Hope that helps.
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Thanks, Sue. I’ve been putting off trying it as I was afraid it would go horribly wrong. I guess in the car speeding along the highway wasn’t the best place for a first attempt at blogging on a phone. I also think I’ve been doing it back to front – bringing up the photo and hitting the share button. I’ll try going into the app and adding media. What fun!
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Just takes some practice but definitely not as easy as on a laptop. Sounds like you are getting it figured out. 🙂
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I’m fairly 19th century with technology. I’ve a lot of catching up to do. Himself is 18th century so he’s no help!
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I was computer illiterate for many years. This past year if blogging my brain has been smoking it’s working so hard. It all comes with time, patience, practice and a lot of Googling. 🙂
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Google in one hand, phone in the other hand the next time I try an app post. I just got bored in the car and was playing with my new toy.
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Good for you to try!
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😉
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Shame you all have to suffer my boo boos. 😕
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No worries. I’m sure the same kinds of things will happen in Sept when I give it a try in Italy. 🙂
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Please don’t type while cycling!
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No just in my head while cycling. I’m not so coordinated so I would be tipsy turkey in about three seconds if I tried that. 🙂
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Eyes on the road! Hands on the handlebars!
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🙂
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I have had a very hard time on the Word Press App. I have a iphone… and I think WordPress needs to iron out some kinks/bugs. I have been offline so was trying to do posts from my phone… not an easy task. Just sayin’!
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Well Nancy! I replied to your comment on my phone and lookee here. No comment to be found! Laptop to the rescue. Again. What I said was . . . thanks for sayin’. I thought it was me.
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Carol – am I gong mad or is this post published twice?
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Nooo! It’s not you. It’s ME! Look again at the post and you will see my rather feeble explanation. Steep learning curve. New phone.
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that’s just plain trickery!
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Made me lol! That’s good enough for me!
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Obviously a case of reading the small print!
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I had actually typed that very thing in somewhere on the app draft but it didn’t show up on the post. Don’t know what I’m doing obviously.
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