I am going to be traveling to Europe for a year and I need a (free) website builder.

Most of the stuff I’ll be putting on there is pictures (larger sizes, and I know I can shrink them, but I’d rather just have a quick/mass photo uploader on the site).

I also will be writing a journal-like series of entries, but don’t care too much about how much I can manipulate the text. Plain is fine.

I might want to upload some video, and though it will be much rarer than photos, I want to make sure that the website allows me enough space for a lot of photos and some video. (I like Windows Media, if that makes any difference.)

Above all, I just need a really quick-uploading and preferably high-capacity free website maybe in a journal style (like a blog).

I’ve used blogger and like it except that it is REALLY slow uploading photos (and I think my computer is generally really fast). Geocities is less of a blog format and so that’s not totally suited for my needs (unless I’m overlooking a feature).

Any suggestions? If possible, throw out a few details of the site(s) you recommend. Thanks!!!