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Travel Journals are generally a private affair between their creator and its pages – It’s not often one has the opportunity to take a look inside *someone else’s* journal and see how they record their journeys. I’m so grateful to Mary Morris who’s opened some of her watercolour travel journals, created over the years, to let us […]
Tell Your Story in Pictures When introduced to story telling as a child we ‘read’ picture books not through the words on each page, but via the [gorgeous] illustrations that bring the story to life. When we enter primary school we naturally express ourselves and share ideas (however silly) through drawings – But once we hit High School, we’re increasingly […]
When I shared one of my travel journal ideas of a Story-Map Journal I’d kept last year in Europe, there was a buzz of excitement and interest. Certainly, for me, it’s been the most successful travel journal I’ve ever kept. A mere glance at any page brings my travel memories vividly, and instantly, back to life without having […]
Do you love the idea of reminiscing with a travel journal but after missing a few days feel all is lost? On a recent trip to Europe Linda tried a storyboard journal approach to her travel journaling – which she sometimes calls story mapping! This is one in a series of interviews with travellers who share […]
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 […]
