The ‘Best Chips Theory’ & Why You Should Blog While Travelling

It goes without saying that we want to enjoy our holidays. We spent good money on them, have used our annual leave and researched them thoroughly to make sure our time is well spent. For these reasons, it’s common for people such as myself to feel like you’ve ripped yourself off when you’re not having the absolute best time in the world, especially when you’re trying to see more of it than you previously have.

Whether you order a disappointing dinner or spend hours doing something that turned out not to be much fun, sometimes we blame ourselves for not being enough travelling as “successfully” as we would have liked.

Personally, I find the remedy for this is a good ol’ fashion ‘90s style blog. Why will blogging (or vlogging) improve your holiday? Well, it’s because of the Best Chip Theory.

Let’s say, you are in Amsterdam. You might want to try one of those cones of chips and mayo that make the city famous in a decidedly family friendly way. You got to the place that claims to sell the cities best frites, line up with the other tourists, give them your money and discover that for above average prices you just bought below average chips without a grain of chicken salt in sight.

Suddenly, a sub-par chip has just wasted your precious time, money and calories. For the regular traveller that’s a day ruined but for a blogger it might just be a day made. Why? Because it’s good for their blog silly!

For a blogger, the Best Chip Theory makes their travels WIN/WIN situations. If they try the ‘Best Chip’ and it is in fact the best chip then they get a bit of content, and they get to eat the best chips in Amsterdam which is basically like seeing the best mullet in Western Sydney (magical).

However, if the alleged ‘Best Chip’ turns out to be average, disappointing or (TW) under salted, then the blogger gets to break the story; ‘I Tried The ‘Best Chips’ And They Were Bad’.

Failure to enjoy themselves while travelling fuels someone with a travel blog as they have a place to whinge, vent and warn, even if it’s just to the extremely loyal family and friends who are reading. Suddenly, a negative experience becomes a heroic bullet that they have taken to improve the trip of future travellers.

Additionally, some bloggers might now be on a quest to find that elusive ‘Best Chip’, a noble quest that means any time, money or calories wasted a worth it and that the first blunder is now just a funny memory made by a young naive stranger that you no longer recognise as yourself.

I’m not saying you should go out of your way to have bad experiences or walk around venues wearing a shirt that reads ‘TREAT ME RIGHT, I BLOG’, but treating your trip like you are reporting back to the people is a great way to turn would-be one star ratings into funny stories and those social media interactions we reluctantly crave.

Hopefully the places you go to are mostly good and your blog entries are only lightly peppered by average chips, but for the creator, turning experiences into stories removes some of the burden

PS - The ‘Best Chips Holland’ chips in the photo were pretty amazing. Double fried for a crispy outside and fluffy interior, really nice with the house frites sauce and shake of seasoning. Highly recommend. Watch me eat them.