Your overall website design is good..
Well, your sidebar is not dealing with an adsense ads and apply some coding tricks on header navigation menu to make its look more professional and sexy.
Add some widgets (e.g; Facebook likes, follow Google pages etc) either on sidebar or footer.
Overall website fonts, image alignments are good..
Keep it up...
Hi I've just started a travel blog so I'm looking for people's opinions and how I might improve it.
The Stingy Traveller

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