Christmas Travelling Tales – Part 1

Love hearing about other people’s travelling experiences, so we hold themed travelling tale jamborees on our Facebook Page. Last month it was Music Travelling Tales As we travel towards the festive season, this month its… Christmas Travelling Tales Sally Foley-Lewis Christmas! When my hubby and I moved to the UAE we had done some research about the […]

101 Ways of Using your Map Journal

Travelling holidays are full of amazing experiences but, that’s only half of the tale ~ Spending time with your travel memories when that moment for nostalgia strikes, is like taking a marvellous mini-break… IF you can remember them! Australia Map Journals simply summarize your trip on a single sheet… so, Here are 101 ways to use it 😉 […]

So, Who is Linda?

The wonderful Craig and Caz Makepiece of yTravel Blog hold a weekly “Post your URL”on their Facebook Page where a random participant is drawn and last week it was —–> ME!!<—– (Linda Fairbairn of Journey Jottings!) They promptly asked me some questions… and this is what I said 😉 1. So, who is Linda? Born in England, I […]

…tracking trails & tales

My eye was taken by this advertisement in a weekend newspaper colour supplement. It seems I’m not the only one who thinks its fun to visually… …track *your* trails and tales 😉 By Visit Victoria its a promotion to ‘Lose Yourself’ in Melbourne’s fashion districts. When visiting a new city, or exploring your home turf, doodling a diagrammatic ‘mud […]

‘My Divine Landmark’

“WHAT EMOTIONS DO ‘manmade landmarks’ like the The Twin Towers, the Golden Gate Bridge, Great Wall of China, Sydney Harbor or The Brooklyn Bridge mean to you? Can you capture how you feel about your favorite ‘manmade landmark?” Wow ~ What a challenge ~ Its all very well being awestruck by a structure in the […]

Do you have a Medical Case of Wanderlust?

I came across this blog post headlined: “Diagnosed with Dromomania (A Psychological Travel Illness) – Do you have it?” Any traveller couldn’t help but be sucked in by this headline and when I shared it on Twitter I immediately got numerous responses of relief from some of my fellow travel-loving compatriots that they were finally diagnosed 😉 According […]