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Hello 2015! And Hello to You here on Journey Jottings 😀 After a wonderful Christmas with family in Scotland, New Years Day was a wild, windy, wet affair wearing Wellington boots for sploshing in puddles! Come and join me welcome in the New Year… Click here if you can’t see it: http://youtu.be/bjtAT8ZCbL4 H–A–P–P–Y N–E–W Y–E–A–R!
Yikes! When I heard last week someone say it was October, my heart missed a beat! Three quarters of the way through the year – Where has it gone? What have I done? Is the year escaping me? I’m convinced the world is spinning faster as days fly, weeks skip and months on occasions simply […]
How to experience the fun of an outback road trip in just 3 days Why should the grey nomads, gap-year’ers and young families doing the big lap of Australia have all the fun? If you can’t take 3 months off to hit the road – Try taking 3 days – You’d be amazed what you […]
Funny Australian Signs from Outback Queensland There can’t be too many places you go on holiday, or for a break, where your destination appears so intent on ensuring you’re left wanting for nothing, as on my recent visit to the Gemfields in central Queensland’s outback. First port of call – “The Willy Wash”, which comes decked out […]
“All the buckets had been taken except for one” John recounted. “‘Lucky Last’ I called it” and his eyes crinkled up and his cheeks reddened as he chuckled to himself. Having paid the princely sum of $8 for a bucket of wash, (many places here in the gemfields of central outback Queensland sell pre-dug wash […]
“Would you like to take part in a travel bloggers’ blog hop?” A travel bloggers’ what hop? Amanda, from Not a Ballerina (there’s a story there!) emailed asking me to join the hop, skip and a jump from travel blog to travel blog where, having been tagged, we in turn pass the baton on to […]
Let’s be honest, when setting off to travel Australia, despite our primary desire to see the country, the most sought after sign you have your eyes peeled for when on the road is… Whether out on the open road, pulling into town, or about to do a National Park hike – the first thing we […]
I love delving into travel journals – My travel journals, your travel journals (if you’ll let me take a peek!), or in this case… a published travel journal – The Travel Journal of Jacqueline & Lee Bouvier Jacqueline Bouvier – the future Jackie Kennedy Onnasis and her sister Lee’s travel journal from 1951 in Europe. One Special […]
Serendipity and Travel go hand in hand When I wrote a post a few years ago asking What does Travel Mean to You? I said: “I love travel’s unexpected delights and the Serendipity of it” 🙂 Just as it’s inevitable that we encounter new places, new food and new people on our travels – It’s inevitable […]
This post forms part of my series How to Travel Journal Like a Mapmaker… In the previous three posts about creating story-maps I’ve covered: How to Make the Most of Line Types to Express Your Travels How to Create the Illusion of Movement with Arrows And the Use of Pictogram Symbols for pictorially communicating your trips Now, how […]
