Since I can’t really delete what I’ve written (tear one page out and a dozen may fall out), once my words are on the page, they stay. Mine acts as a mirror: when I write, I’m at my most honest.
It’s a bit like talking to your best friend or companion. I often travel alone so putting it all down on paper is my way of sharing impressions, joys and discoveries.
Sometimes, my travel journaling conditions are… ideal! WHY SHOULD YOU KEEP A JOURNAL FOR TRAVEL? I documented everything, in excruciating detail probably no one but myself will ever see.īut why keep a travellers journal these days when there are so many other ways of collecting memories? You can write a blog, post photographs and travel quotes on social media, email your thoughts home… Why not just use a digital journal or one of the popular travel diary apps? Thick, slim, colorful, dreamy, lined, plain, spiral or bound, the cramped handwriting that fills my travel journal pages contains all my impressions of a place – its musty tropical smell, the rough texture of sun-baked walls, the black clothes of weather-worn women who look older than their years. These beautiful travel journals (at least to me) contain all the bits of my life away from home. I just have to glance at my shelf and visions of elephants and savannahs and wood fires tumble out, along with the perfume of rice and beans or the song of a toucan. Just a few travel journal examples from my heaving stacks… the green one for Cuba, the pale blue for the Baltics and the rainbow cover for Nigeria. That thick yellow-and-black one from a small shop in Jakarta details my illness in Lake Toba the once-sleek orange trip diary from Bührer Stationers in Geneva kicked off a European tour that tatty burgundy travel notebook was bought in preparation for my trip around the world.
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