Hugo is good, but you will need some technical expertise to customize it, unless you use a stock theme/template.

GitHub pages is also a great way to get started quickly - Markdown is easy to learn and there are several cheat sheets out there.

What I did in the end is created my own very simple site generator (calling it that is probably being over generous) - it lacks many features of a full-blown generator like Hugo, but it suits me down to the ground. I then host (for free) on GitHub and publish also to neocities.org (for free). See my HN profile for link to website - from there you can pick up the source code if you're interested.

Good luck with your blogging!