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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 […]
Australia Road Trip Stamps Have you seen these fun Australia Post Road Trip stamps? Released on the 18th September 2012, the collector’s first day of issue is postmarked ‘Wandering, WA 6308′. Australia Post says on their website that Australians and road trips go hand-in-hand – partly as a rite of passage, but partly out of […]
Do you research and make plans pre-trip? So you know where you’re going and what you’ll find at your travel destination? Or… Do you follow your nose and take pot luck? Seeing what evolves when you get there? My husband is the latter! On a recent trip to Europe, apart from knowing he’d be in […]
““Well,” said Pooh, “what I like best — ” and then he had to stop and think. Because although Eating Honey was a very good thing to do, there was a moment just before you began to eat it which was better than when you were, but he didn’t know what it was called” quote […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
