A travel blog without building a website
On Pebbls your journal is the blog. Add a few lines and some photos on your phone when something happens, and they go up in order along the map of your route. Send people one link to read it in a browser, and anyone who'd like an email when you post can have one.
Write it on the day
Each entry is a pebbl: up to five photos or videos, a title and as much or as little as you want to say. Pebbls pins it where you are, so you don't have to explain where you'd got to. A couple of lines on the bus are quicker to write than a catch-up a fortnight later, and they're usually better to read.
No website to set up and no wifi needed
There's no site to design and nothing to log into on a computer. Write with no signal and the entry waits on your phone until you're back online, even if that's days later. Set uploads to wait for wifi and your photos stay off your roaming data.
One link to share, and emails for anyone who wants them
Send the link to your family and friends. It opens in any browser with your map, photos and notes, and nobody needs the app. If they tap Follow along and give an email address and a name, they get an email when you post, one a day at most, or a weekly one if they'd rather.
A short film for each chapter
Split the trip into chapters, one for each day or each country, whatever suits you. A chapter with a few photos gets a flyby film over its route, with your photos along the way. Pebbls makes it for you and it's free.
Where they were writing from
Every line is what a phone recorded on the way, and the photos sit where they were taken. All four trips have finished, so you can read the blogs from the first day to the last.
How members kept their blogs going
A few lines most days
David was away from March to June 2026, most of it cycling round Japan, and added 1,225 pebbls in 86 chapters. Most are just a photo. About 440 have a few lines with them, written on the day, like the campsite where you pay for the baths on trust, or the snowy path where he gave up and took the cable car down.
A chapter for each day's walk
Julia and James walked the Camino Francés from Saint-Jean-Pied-de-Port to Santiago in September and October 2024, with a chapter for nearly every day. They put the hard bits in too. On day 6 there's a stop on a hill for a cry, then a better mood walking through the vineyards towards lunch. The next day they found a fountain that pours wine.
Written in Dutch
Johan rode about 3,000 km from Antwerp to Pylos in the south of Greece in June 2026, with his riding partner Rik, and wrote a ride report most days in Dutch. Readers who don't speak Dutch see it translated, and the map needs no translating.
Written by the children
The Newluks family drove from New South Wales round Western Australia and back between April and July 2023, about 14,500 km towing a camper trailer. The children wrote a lot of the entries and signed them, so it reads like letters home. One day it's 37 km on the bikes, another it's a kangaroo that looked ready to eat their toast.
Travel blogs on Pebbls to read
All four were written while the trip was going on. David wrote most days for three months in Japan, and Johan wrote up his ride in Dutch. On the Western Australia trip the children wrote a lot of it.
- Japan by bike and train · David · 3 countries · 88 days · by bike and ferry
- The Camino Francés on foot · Julia and James · 2 countries · 38 days · on foot and by train
- Antwerp to Greece by bike · Johan · 10 countries · 31 days · by bike
- Round Western Australia with a camper trailer · the Newluks family · 1 country · 85 days · by camper trailer and car
Films made from their chapters
Pebbls made each film from one chapter's route and photos. Tap one to watch it with sound.
What it costs
Your journal, photos and notes, the map, flyby films and sharing are free, with no time limit and no adverts. Explorer is £20, €20 or $20 a year if you want more: your map keeps up with you faster, journeys can be private, and you get offline maps for four areas at a time.
Questions
Is it a blog platform like WordPress?
No. You don't get your own domain name or a choice of themes. Your blog is your journey's journal on pebbls.com, with the map, photos and notes, and there's nothing to keep updated. If you already have a website, you can add your journey's map to it.
Do people need the app or an account to read it?
No. Your link opens in any browser. They only give an email address and a name if they want an email when you post.
How many emails will my followers get?
One a day at most for each traveller they follow, or a weekly email if they'd rather.
Can I keep my blog private?
On the free plan journeys are public and you share them by link. With Explorer a journey can be private. You can still send its link to the people you want to read it, and they can follow it the same way.
Can I write in my own language?
Yes. Readers see what you wrote translated into their language, with a button to see the original. Johan wrote his whole ride in Dutch.
Is it free?
Yes. The journal, photos, the map, sharing and flyby films are free with no time limit. Explorer is optional.