I’ve been keeping notes on my trip to Tavira (did the same for Barcelona and Lisbon) and was wondering if anyone else does this. I use these notes to write little accounts of my trips and include some photos. But I don’t remember doing this before I had my blog.
So, who out there keeps travel journals and which has been your most memorable trip?
casa azahar 
I keep a written journal anyway, in addition to my blogs, so I’m always in the loop with myself. I also have a shitty memory.
Most memorable trip…Oh, but I have so many…Backpacking around Europe in 1997…The Oregon Coast when I was 12…Test the Nation in January…
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i don’t keep a travel journal, but on a 2 week excursion to thailand, vietnam and cambodia last year, the nightly e-mails i sent to a friend provided a great means to make notes… i’ve referred to the e-mails several times, and the ‘conversational’ style seems to work.
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I keep a travel journal, have some going back nearly 30 years to my first trip around Europe. The writing makes me cringe, but it’s a great way to bring back the memories.
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I can’t take any credit, but we do take notes on our “big” holidays.
The two occasions I have been back to New Zealand, and going to Canada.
Since it is my “home” even though I have lived in the UK far longer, those trips are the most memorable and precious for me.
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I started doing the travel diary thing in earnest during my first year volunteering in vietnam. there was just so much happening every day I needed to be able to keep track of things. am so glad I did, each consecutive year I took the old diaries with me and referred to them a lot.
am so looking forward to starting a spanish travel diary in 3 months 🙂
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I think my most memorable trip was when I was 17 and hitch-hiked from Winnipeg to Newfoundland and back again with my boyfriend. Mostly because it was such an adventure and took about two months.
Lisbon and Barcelona have been my most enjoyable ones.
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I used to keep diaries but now I use my camera instead of a pen 🙂
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so I guess you didn’t keep notes on that trip azahar?
hey I’ve been to newfoundland too! and prince edward island…
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“Most memorable trip…Oh, but I have so many”
Lucky you, WC! 🙂
“I used to keep diaries but now I use my camera instead of a pen”
A very fine substitute, especially the way you wield a camera, Archie.
I think emails are a great way to keep a ‘travel journal’, daisy – much more natural and ‘in the moment’ without worrying too much about the prose.
30 years! That’s quite impressive, ian. I don’t think I still possess anything I used to have 30 years ago.
And so, even if I had kept notes on that hitch-hiking trip, nursemyra, they would be long gone by now. Yeah, I went to PEI too. Goodness, where haven’t you been? (besides Spain…)
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I – or rather we, first friends and I and later the Mrs and I – actually used to, way before somebody had thought of blogs. First purchase on arriving somewhere was a notepad or the like, and off the writing went. We still have some of them – some of it is decidedly odd. Not as much a factual work, though it does cover the basics of where and when, but more impressions and musings inspired from those – and downhill from there 😉
Nowadays I do more tend to try to get online and mail home, post on H2G2 or – which, admittedly, I should do more – post on my blog.
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The last travel journal I did was when we went on a 3 week holiday in France, We went with another couple and their kids and I did a daily journal from a kids viewpoint. On our return made books for the children to read with illustrations and momentos of the trip (sweet wrappers, postcards and so on )
It was great fun to do
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What a wonderful idea, 70steen! Even for adults. I think I might try doing a scrapbook thing next trip.
Yes, your blog posts are a little sporadic, SG V…
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