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 […]
Amanda’s Digital Scrapbook – Travel Journal Interviews
Would you like to take a peek inside *someone else’s* travel journal to see how they do it? What quick, simple ways have they developed that could help you record the memories from your trip? This is one in a series of interviews where travellers share with us their fun and varied travel journal techniques – Amanda… […]
Linda’s Storyboard Journal – Travel Journal Interviews
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 […]
Megan’s Travel Journal – Travel Journal Interviews
Do you love the idea of reminiscing with a travel journal but after missing a few days feel all is lost? Take inspiration from Megan’s method of sporadically sorting, sifting and sticking mementos in her travel journal. This is one in a series of interviews with travellers who share with us their fun and varied travel […]
‘En Plein Air’… Happy Hints for Breathing In your Travels
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 […]
Why the Travel Journal I Meant to Start… Didn’t
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’ […]
D is for Doodling – Happy Hints for Jotting your Journey
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 […]
Red Nomad Tracking Down ‘Journey Jottings’ on her Aussie Odyssey
I received a Tweet from @RedNomadOz on Twitter: And about a week later… I’d been enjoying following the trails and tales of Red Nomad Oz on her blog for some time, when as part of her ‘Australia’s Scenic Public Toilets’ series she sighted #17 at White Cliffs (in outback NSW) along with…“arguably the most remote OZ location to […]
On the Road to Alice Springs
Having packed a few essentials for the trip… We’re off! Background to our Australia adventure: I had some International visitors come to stay the week-end before last who wanted some ideas of what they could do and where they could go to get a feel for Australia in just a few weeks. Before the week-end […]
Are you an Aural, Visual or Kinaesthetic Person?
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 […]