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“I’m going on an adventure!” J.R.R. Tolkien I was standing in the British Library in London looking down into a museum cabinet where beneath a layer of glass, lay an original map of Mordor. Hand drawn on graph paper by Tolkien’s son Christopher in 1948. it was used by his father as an aid to […]
Australia Travel Notebook Published Things always get a bit chaotic here at Journey Jottings when we’re putting out a new product. Once the design is sorted, the practicalities of getting the artwork to press becomes all consuming. Paper samples are fondled and folded and felt for the right feel. Notebooks are for writing so the feel […]
Its my birthday next week, and thinking of anniversaries I realised I’d missed my… 3rd Blogging Birthday! I considered sweeping it under the carpet. But as my overriding life philosophy is that its never too late to start anything you think you could have missed the boat for… Here’s a quick reflection of where the […]
We’re excited to show and share our Special Edition Map Journal as part of an opening spread in a German lifestyle magazine. At the end of last year I was contacted by the German tour operator Dreamaroo who were submitting a seven page article to Linea Futura Magazine. Frances, Dreamaroo’s Munich based Business Development Manager, wanted […]
Our planet is precious ~ We are but custodians of an Earth that feeds us, nourishes our bodies and souls and gives us a precious life. So when a scientific research project to study past shorelines around Australia (in relation to climate change) approached me requesting the use of my pictorial Australia map to illustrate the […]
Here on the blog over the last few weeks, I’ve been highlighting adventures from my road trip through Australia’s red centre. So far I’ve shared photos from my first ever trip to Uluru and Kata Tjuta , followed by the drive out of Alice Springs along the West MacDonnell Range… But this week, we’re taking a break from […]
Are you reading this in your Inbox? Or scrolling down your RSS feed? Well today, I suggest you read it on the Journey Jottings website 😉 WHY? Because we’ve got a NEW website full of eye candy. If you’d dropped by our website this time last week, this is where you’d have landed – Plumb bang in the […]
Journey Jottings travel blog celebrates 2 years An opportunity to take a walk down memory lane and revisit some of the travel blogging topics we’ve talked about. We’ve covered fun travelling tales, including yours via the monthly themed Facebook Travelling Tales, as well as sharing some of mine in Tales of a Traveller. I’ve also […]
Today I signed off the proofs for our new 5th edition Australia Mail-It Map. Its a point of no return when you’ve made what feels like a million decisions, and there’s no turning back as the printing plates are produced and the press starts to roll 😉 Each edition develops a character of its own as […]
At the end of each month during 2010 I looked back and notated the highlight of the preceeding 4 weeks in one of the boxes on an Australia Map Journal ~ The idea, quite simply, was to simply summarize the year on a single sheet ~ So at year’s end I’d have my 2010 year at […]
