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My good friend Kirsty Wilson from Travel Tips Plus & Interim Business Solutions wrote a blog post last week entitled ‘Souvenirs: Postcards from Travel Destinations”. I posted the link onto our Facebook page asking: “Do you keep all the PostCards you receive?” Photo: Travel Tips Plus “I keep them!” piped up Charley Jones And Sarah […]
No generic journals, please! I never take a generic journal away with me when I go travelling , bought prior to the trip. One of my ‘travel secrets‘ is to buy a small (my preference is an A6 sized) jotter/notebook in each country/region I visit so associations of the travel journal are connected to the place […]
“My handwriting would spoil it” is a common cry I hear when travellers first put their hands on a Journey Jottings Map Journal. But here – Take inspiration from these beautiful scribbles scrawled across a scribbly gum tree – I think you’d be hard pressed to create anything looking more untidy – and yet, look at […]
I’ve been nominated by Kirsty Wilson of TravelTipsPlus to participate in Tripbase’s “3 Best Kept Secrets” “Congratulations on being nominated in Tripbase’s Best Kept Travel Secrets Project! Two months on, and we’re amazed at the response we’ve had. Over 100 travel bloggers have participated so far, sharing their Best Kept Travel Secrets on far-flung destinations, […]
“I’m not sure where to start” is a common cry with anything new! Whether that be the first gleaming white page in a new travel journal or your new Map Journal. Making that first mark on your Map Journal can be a little daunting ~ but remember there’s no such thing as a ‘bad’ mark or […]
Some of my most fun and memorable travels started on a spontaneous whim No time for preconceived notions, experiences were judged as they should be, on their merits, not on expectations of hope. Jotting spontaneous notes, rather than planning and preening journal entries, is the same! By worrying about the perfect opening phrase for your […]
Map Journal Map Journals are Journey Jottings’ signature product having come into being when I returned from a trip to the Northern Territory, Australia and felt my traditional travel journal just didn’t cut it when it came to showing and sharing with family and friends where I’d been on my travels and what adventures I’d had. […]
Need some inspiration for what to do with your journal? Check out the 1000 journals site. In the year 2000, 1,000 journals were sent out into the public domain. Some were placed in a fixed location, and others roamed the world, but wherever they were, they were open to anyone to make an entry – […]
Sketchbook watercolour from a walk in the Border Range National Park (on the border of northern NSW and Qld.) Watercolour from my Sketchbook A collection of volcanic rock, Bleeding Heart leaf, giant snail shell, eucalypt leaf and fallen Flame tree flowers are things that caught my magpie eye on this walk through the rainforest […]
Seth Godin said in a blog post about Nostalgia… “Nostalgia is a basic human emotion” Kodak created a billion dollar industry by giving people a tool to feed their nostalgia. “We don’t take pictures because we want to know what we’re seeing now… we already know that. We take pictures because it makes us feel […]
