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Do you love the idea of reminiscing with a travel journal but after missing a few days feel all is lost? Take inspiration from Megan’s method of sporadically sorting, sifting and sticking mementos in her travel journal. This is one in a series of interviews with travellers who share with us their fun and varied travel […]
When was the last time you stopped, looked and became part of the scene you were travelling in? I’m always on the lookout for ways and means to record my travels without it being a chore… both at the time, and later when I come to read it back. On my latest trip to Scotland […]
Day 1, Page 1 of my new travel journal… Now… where shall I begin? Don’t want to mess it up and ruin it with the opening line… Day 15, (still) Page 1 of my (now not so) new, but still empty travel journal… There are times when ‘something‘ is better than nothing – A ‘bad’ […]
Taste – Holiday Foods Culinary delights from across the world excite our palate on a daily basis whether at home or abroad. And when in far flung destinations exotic herbs and spices fill the air and our nostrils. Foods, flavours and styles of preparation are synonymous with regions across the globe making local food part of a cultural […]
SNAP! Oooooo LOOK at THAT! CLICK! SNAP! …and THAT! CLICK! SHUTTER! SNAP!! Is this how your holiday goes? 😉 Snap happy! Taking photographs is the quickest, easiest and most convenient way of recording your travels… Or, is it? When I asked on Twitter: How do you record your trip for future posterity? […]
How do you remember your travel and holiday adventures? Photographs? Journal? Or do you engage alternative ways and means to ensure as the ‘ole grey matter turns a whiter shade of pale you’ll have the fun of recounting and recalling travelling tales from times past? Whilst photographs are one of the most commonly used mediums for their simplicity (point, […]
First, let’s put the word ‘souvenir’ into context – What does ‘souvenir’ really mean? The word “souvenir” (as a noun) originates from the French, which literally means: ‘memory’ A thing you remember While ‘la memoire’ is your memory as a whole A ‘souvenir’ is a memory that you hold in this repository, and from which you recall […]
Last Saturday I tweeted a link to a previous post asking: “Do you write, draw or collect in your travel journal?” Ian, of @EagerExistance replied: “write and collect. what would i draw?” So I answered: “Not so much ‘drawing’ as doing impressionistic doodles that’ll jog your memory better than words” Having recently spent a […]
We each have five senses, but its primarily our ears, eyes and touch that perceive our surroundings and through which we communicate our learnings and experiences with others. We each have a preference or stronger leaning to one of our senses making us predominately an aural person a visual person or a kinaesthetic person. The simple […]
I’ve just unearthed some of my old travel journals during one of those sorting-clearing spring-cleaning sessions. A travel journal from one of my earliest trips through south-east Asia, and another from a more recent visit to France have re-surfaced, which between them span many miles of travel over many years. Viewing them side by side the […]
