Welcome ~
Holidays and travel are full of amazing experiences but, that’s only the half of it ~
Spending time with those memories (when that moment for nostalgia strikes) is like taking a marvellous mini-break…
IF you can remember them!
This blog offers tips and tricks for
simply
*highlighting your holiday adventures*
- using Journey Jottings Map Journals if you’re travelling in and around Australia, or
- utilizing some of my many ideas for taking traveller’s reminiscing to new horizons, wherever you care to roam across the globe.
Hello ~ I’m Linda Fairbairn
and here are My 3 best kept travel secrets.
If you love holiday travel (which is why you’re here – right?!) there’s also:
- Postcard updates from here in Australia featuring my take on Australian flora, fauna, city and landscape.
- Australia Photo Friday, viewpoints from my photo album.
- Travelling Tales by you, collated via our monthly themed travel stories on our Journey Jottings Facebook Page and which I post on this blog in the Facebook Travelling Tales section.
So, Who is Linda Fairbairn?
For more background info such as where I’ve travelled etc, here’s an interview 
I’ve always been taken by this quote from Sir Francis Chichester , 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.”
To me, a map is a window to distant horizons.
I love horizons.
- They beckon from across landscapes 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 a previously visited area I’m immediately drawn back to places and times past.
And as fingers fall upon familiar place-names, memories of valley vistas and towering ranges are vividly brought back to life.
Most people think of maps as being solely navigational, but for me:
maps evoke nostalgia… for the past
and flaunt far away places that taunt… for the future
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 your holiday adventures ~
Here’s 101 ways to use your Australia Map Journal for starters 
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