My travel journal

My colleague Rebecca and I have been planning our trip to Europe since last year.  One day, we were lolling around on the office couch (working, obviously) when we realised that we had photography, a love for coffee and wanderlust in common.  And so, after slogging for seven months without a break, I'm finally off on a month-long adventure with her!

As much as I love my current Muji spiral-bound dot grid journal, I felt like this holiday deserved its own book and so I've pulled out one that I've been dying to use since my colleagues got it for me for my birthday last year: A leather-bound Kikki K travel journal!

While I don't normally like travel journals that are fussy and full of maps and random forms that I have no interest in filling in, this one suits me perfectly.  It's full of blank, lined and gridded pages so that I can draw and write whatever I please, but also contains cute quotes and doodles.  

Instead of forms, there are a couple of pages with prompts such as "describe your day on a plate" and "what are your surroundings right now" which I find very charming.  And of course, a back pocket filled with stickers never hurts!

I'm trying to pack very lightly for a month so I'm not bringing my laptop and probably won't be blogging (though I might queue a couple of posts).  I hope to be back though, with stories to tell and pictures to show.

The stories, at least, I can now record obsessively.