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Holidays and travelling are full of amazing experiences ~  but that’s only the half of it ~

Spending time with those memories, when that moment for nostalgia strikes, whether that be a few weeks, a few months or even years later is like taking a marvellous mini-break… IF you can remember them!

This blog offers tips and tricks for simply *highlighting your holiday adventures* without the bore of writing a tome or spending hours scrapbooking ;)

If you love holiday travel (which is why you’re here – right?!) there’s also postcard updates from me in Australia and a peppering of travellers’ tales from you (if you’re a Journey Jottings Facebook Fan) via our monthly themed travel stories, which I upload and share in a post on this blog too.

Being a visual person here’s a pictorial summary of  my background ;)

I’ve always been taken by this quote from Sir Francis Chichester who was the first person to sail single-handedly around the world via the clipper route in 1967

“To a man with imagination, a map is a window to adventure.”

Is a map a window to your adventures?

To me, a map is a window to distant horizons.

I love horizons.

They beckon from across landscapes that that rise and fall across the world.

I love landscape.

Hewn by climate over eons of time, this global environmental sculpture appears from afar, like a crazy patchwork of regional textures and tones sewn together by waterways and dry creek beds; yet close up, the transgression from one locale to another feels more seamless as the vegetation transpires from lush verdant greens to dry spiky ochres.

I love maps ~

Which via lines and symbols snapshot entire landscapes so succinctly onto a single 2D sheet.

Unfolding a map of an area previously visited I’m immediately drawn back to places and times past.

Which, as fingers fall upon familiar place-names bring memories of valley vistas and towering ranges vividly back to life.

Maps are primarily navigational,  but for me they evoke nostalgia and flaunt far away places that tempt!

This blog is about all of these loves ~

heading over horizons on holiday,

observing vignettes of landscape adorned with flora and camouflaged fauna and…

maps for highlighting holiday adventures ~

Join me on this journey

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