If you've followed this story so far - reading my last two blogs below - you'll know I've been giving a detailed insight into one of the press trips I did earlier this year. It was journey to Sweden to cruise on the Gota Canal. My article has now been published in the Mail on Sunday and subsequently on the dailymail.co.uk website here: http://tiny.cc/gg9fw

Please feel free to read it but I don't get paid anything for it's appearance on the website... Haha, not that I'm bitter or anything. You won't know of course that my piece has been shortened and slightly changed by the subs and that the picture desk rejected all the photos I took in favour of some library shots. 

The copy changes seem to be slightly toning down the copy, especially taming my description of just how tiny the cabin was. The Mail on Sunday increasingly has the policy of being positive about travel, not in an advertorial way, but just trying to inspire readers to take holidays ( and doubtless to respond to the travel adverts in those pages). 

The significance of the photos isn't so much the damage to my limited photographic ego, it's that I get paid extra if they use any of my shots. This can make the difference between the job being worth doing or not. So I try hard to take shots that they will find difficult not to use. In this case there were plenty of me in and around the boat and some of me demonstrating the diminutive nature of the cabin (ie: touching all four walls at once). Somehow they've resisted them this time and it means the job was borderline profitable. Nice trip, interesting memories but hardly a great career step.