I am all for making wonderful memories while on vacation.

Keeping a travel journal while discovering new cultures and places will help you to firmly cement those memories of unique and joyful moments while out and about.

Here are a few inspirations to hopefully encourage you to keep a travel journal for your next trip:

1️⃣ Invest in a beautiful notebook. Maybe even purchase it at your holiday destination to give you an instant visual memory of that trip once you’ve returned home.

2️⃣ Make space in your journal for photos and postcards, ticket stubs or other little paper mementos you like to keep. Stick an open envelope on one of the journal pages to keep those little paper treasures inside. A postcard could be a souvenir and a picture is a visual aid memoir for later.

3️⃣ You can prep your journal pages before you set off (if you bought the journal at home). Make a list of places you want to see and the activities you want to do once you’ve reached your holiday destination. It will save you time later on and you can make the most of your time when away. There are no rules, make it as practical and comprehensive as you’d like it.

4️⃣ Keep a section for important information and contacts such as timetables, flight info, accommodation details etc. This is especially important if you are going on a long trip with multiple destinations. Keeping it all in one place will help you, even if you don’t usually bother about being organised! 😉

5️⃣ Journaling while on holiday will help you to slow down. It can help you to focus your mind on the “here and now” and put you at ease. Try and include some sketches, doodling or quotes you picked up along the way. You may be surprised how creative you can be.

6️⃣ Keeping a travel journal will help you to organize your thoughts and keep places, people and other impressions of a place alive. Writing about them will help you to remember them in much more detail.

7️⃣ The activity of keeping a daily travel journal will also help you to pass time more quickly. This becomes really valuable when you are stuck somewhere in traffic or in any other queue for that matter. You will ALWAYS have something to do!

Always remember, you are not writing for an audience. A travel journal is completely personal to you and you get to decide later on what you want to do with the information.

It’s a great chance to get to know yourself a little better too. When you look through it in years to come and are reminiscent of the GOOD OLD TIMES, it can show you how you have grown and how you have dealt with different situation.

So tell me, are you already keeping travel journals or is this something you are keen to start? 

Do you have any great tips you like to share about journaling?

HAVE FUN WITH IT ❤