Travel Journal

The best part of a journey is often the part you did not plan.

A good travel note is short. A street that caught the morning light, a meal worth ordering again, the name of a quiet room with a view. These small entries are easy to write down at the time and surprisingly hard to recall later, which is exactly why they are worth keeping.

There is no race to see everything. A single neighbourhood explored slowly tends to leave a deeper impression than a long list of sights rushed through in a day. The journal favours walking, looking and sitting still for a while with a coffee and a notebook.

Maps fold and unfold here as much as books do. Half the pleasure is tracing a route afterwards and remembering where the day actually went.