The program called Blog Sherpa (or Blogs we like) allows Lonely Planet to use your articles, but the Google Adsense Ad showing next to your articles will have YOUR Adsense ID. Which means that you will get 100 percent of the money coming from any clicks on the ads served next to you content. (See an example of article here)

How to submit your blog

When you login to Lonely Planet site, click on your username on the top right. You will then see a new link called “My travel blog”.

Click it on you will be taken to page where you can click “New Travel Blog”, then enter your blog url, a description of your blog, your Adsense ID (you need to get one at google.com/adsense if you don’t have one yet) and of course you have to select the Blog Sherpa program.

I’ve submitted Voyageek and will report on the revenue that the program is bringing, but my blog is probably not the best candidate for it, because I don’t write long posts about destinations. If you have great content about a country or a city, you are likely to be selected and make the most of Blog Sherpa.

All in all here is my summary of the pros and cons of entering the program:

The Pros

-This is an extra income with no added effort. You already wrote the content for your own blog.

- You get a backlink to your blog from a site with great trustrank.

- Your writing will be showed to travelers that might not have heard about you otherwise and you might get new readers.

-You associate with Lonely Planet, a trusted travel brand.

The Cons

-Your blog content is no longer unique. You created duplicated content on another site. Your article on Lonely Planet will compete with the same article on your blog for the same keywords. And guess which site Google will consider the most relevant content ? Not yours. Even if you created the content, Lonely Planet site is likely to be seen by Google as more relevant because of all the inbound links they have.

- And that’s it

- A Global overview of emotions

- 4 Travel Writing Contests You Should Enter Right Now

- 24 travellers to inspire you

- Bare essentials of safety from Air New Zealand

Instead of recommandations from strangers on TripAdvisor or from professional writers who didn’t sleep in the hotels they write about, get recommandations from your friends. When one of my friends writes something about a place, it has a lot more impact on me because I know the person who wrote it and trust that person.

A British tourist to his friend in front of the Eiffel Tower in Paris:

- It looked better on Google Earth.

This is the kind of quotes you will find on the bright new blog Overheard While Traveling. The blog is very new and is now opened to submissions. So please share titbits of conversations you overheard on yout  journeys.

…Insurance Compulsory ?

PS: This post celebrates the launch of Google Suggest of the day

If Gadling writers read Voyageek, then I am flattered, and if they came up with the same idea on their own, let’s say that great minds think alike.

One of the first interview from Robert Scoble new venture Building43

http://www.facebook.com/flights

http://www.facebook.com/hotelier

http://www.facebook.com/holidays

http://www.facebook.com/tourism

http://www.facebook.com/travelagent

http://www.facebook.com/travelblogger

http://www.facebook.com/traveler

http://www.facebook.com/travelling

http://www.facebook.com/travelwriter

If you’ve seen another cool vanity url about traveling traveling, please share it in the comments.

Update: you need to be logged in to access some of the profiles.

My flight was at 9.30 am. But Ryanair is actually not flying from Paris but from a city called Beauvais, 70 km from Paris. To reach Beauvais airport, Ryanair relies on buses leaving from Porte Maillot in Paris to  Beauvais Airport. Rynair recommands to arrive at the bus departue 3 hours 15 minutes before your flights. In my case I had to be there at  6.15 am and as Porte Maillot in 30 mn from the place where I stayed in Paris, my journey started at 5.45 pm.

My flight took off on schedule at 9.30 and we arrived on time in Dublin. I checked my watch just after I picked up my suitcase at Dublin airport and it read 11.15am ( French time). This  means that 5 1/2 hours had passedsince we started out. But my journey didn’t end there. I don’t live at the airport. Actually I am pretty sure nobody does. If you add a 30 mn trip from Dublin airport to my house in Dublin, the real length of a Paris-Dublin trip with Ryanair took a whooping 6 hours!

One piece of advice though -  if you are thinking of a city break in Paris, - have a think about the time you want to spend travelling before you choose airline.