The WordPress.com stats helper monkeys prepared a 2011 annual report for this blog, which was very nice of them.

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2011 in blogging

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To kick off the new year, we’d like to share with you data on your blog’s activity in 2011. You may start scrolling!
Crunchy numbers

A New York City subway train holds 1,200 people. This blog was viewed about 4,000 times in 2011. If it were a NYC subway train, it would take about 3 trips to carry that many people.

In 2011, there were 75 new posts, growing the total archive of this blog to 120 posts. There were 120 pictures uploaded, taking up a total of 229mb. That’s about 2 pictures per week.

The busiest day of the year was June 28th with 141 views. The most popular post that day was About.

How did they find you?

The top referring sites in 2011 were:

facebook.com
telegraph.co.uk
mail.yahoo.com
mail.airfox.net
gormano.blogspot.com

Some visitors came searching, mostly for cruisetheoceanswithemma, http://www.cruisetheoceanswithemma, and cruisetheoceanswithemma.com.

Where did they come from?

Most visitors came from Australia. The United Kingdom & the United States were not far behind.

Who were they?

Your most commented on post in 2011 was J103 Arcadia to Alaska – The First Bit

These were your 5 most active commenters:

1 hormiga 9 comments
2 Sheila and David 7 comments
3 Si 4 comments
4 judi zamos 4 comments
5 tj 2 comments Follow

Perhaps you could follow their blog or send them a thank you note?

Attractions in 2011

These are the posts that got the most views in 2011.

1 J103 Arcadia to Alaska – The First Bit April 2011
2 Punch ups and fires June 2011
3 The Fire – the follow-up (aka Yet Another Sea Day) June 2011
4 Sea Day 1 of 5? 6? Who knows? May 2011
5 Sea Day Bits and Pieces June 2011

This blog will continue, I hope (!), but you can contact me any time. The next cruise planned is in July 2012, for the 175th anniversary of P&O cruises, which will be both a shindig and a half and a fascinating insight into the monumental logistics of running a cruise line. Bringing all seven ships in the fleet to Southampton to toot their whistles (not horns, people, whistles) will be marvellous, but offloading 15,000 people and onloading 15,000 people possibly less so. Should be a laugh, whatever happens. Watch this space and thank you for sticking with me into 2012. Happy New Year.