How to Travel Journal 🌍✈️ + Flip Through my Europe Journal

I'm back home from my whirlwind Europe trip and so excited to share my travel journal with you, plus my top tips for keeping a travel journal on your next big holiday!

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Setting up my travel journal (before the trip):

Travel planning spread ideas:

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✨Supplies used in this video✨
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• Pilot Fude Masake black brush tip pen:
• Canon sticker photo paper: It's hard to link to this internationally but I got mine from eBay!

* = gifted

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✨Video Chapters✨
0:00 Introduction
0:25 All filled in - the spreads I set up before I left
1:42 London, England
2:03 Travel journal tip: Release yourself from the pressure for perfection
2:34 Bath, England & Cardiff, Wales
3:12 Travel journal tip: Use brochures, tickets and guidebooks to help illustrate your adventures
3:55 Edinburgh, Scotland
4:34 Travel journal tip: Make time to journal
5:04 Dublin, Ireland
5:56 Travel journal tip: Journal in your "forced downtime" (on planes, in airports)
7:14 Geneva, Switzerland & Chamonix, France
8:18 Paris, France
8:32 Travel journal tip: Pack stationery like a minimalist
9:17 Everything I brought with me to journal my holiday
14:15 Rome, Italy
15:32 Travel journal tip: Dot points when you're tired
15:51 Venice, Italy
16:28 London, England (again)
17:29 Final thoughts

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[maximalistartist]

“Your memories don’t have to be perfect to be worth remembering, so neither should your journal” … my next Bujo quote?? Heck yes 🥹

[nancyslawson]

I'm thrilled I stumbled onto this video. I am newly widow from December. My son invited me to join him and family on their European trip. This will be my first time across the Atlantic. My husband and I were planning to travel after his retirement. I am a journaler and found the perfect notebook. I already had an idea as to how I am going to capture my trip and now you have given me more ideas! 😊 My husband bought me an Ivy printer. It didn't dawn on me to take it along. I better stock up on paper. Thank you for sharing all these great tips and suggestions. Grabbing pamphlets is also gold! My memories will be full, bittersweet but full. Thanks again. God bless.

[PursueWhatMatters]

Best video so far on travel journaling! I love how you mixed the media between your actaul journal and this video journal.

[LucyLivinYT]

I'm living for the Bullet Journal / Travel Vlog combo! 💗 Even the intro shots had me so excited 😭😭 Such an amazing video 💖💕

[IsadoraOliveiraFranco]

I've never taken a trip long enough to have an entire travel journal for said trip, but I really like doing spreads in my everyday bullet journal whenever I get to visit a new place. I really enjoy collecting postcards, passes and pamphlets too! Your journal turned out lovely and it'll be an amazing thing to look back on in months and years to come 💕 Nice meeting your partner Chris in this video ☺ also, YES for the haul!

[tezzmvx]

i have been collecting lots of tickets and leaflets from my travels last year! your spreads have given me lots of inspiration on starting a travel journal. many thanks

[gamesrudra]

Epic, gorgeous and Mind-blowing video ❤...BTW, your handwriting is even more fun decoding... 😅😅😂

[bb.siopao]

I love the tip about not being afraid to be messy or making mistakes 🥰 I have quick travel journal entries from last year that looked like a complete mess at the time I was making them, but as I flip through them now, I found that I actually don't mind the mess too much. It's the collection of words and mementos that make it lovely 😊

[steppy]

You two are such a cute couple! I love your travel blogs.

[TessaOswin]

Bring less stationary and more adhesive is a great piece advice. I recently went on my first post-Covid holiday and whist I enjoy scrapbooking/journaling I knew I would be seriously lacking in spare energy to do it on the trip so I collected lots of stuff, used my time management app (plus any photos I took)to give me an idea what else I did and stuck it when I got home.

[teddybeeandme]

Love seeing two Aussies react to snow 😁☃️ Love this vlog/bujo and would love a stationery haul video... yes please.... (to be honest I'd probably watch you watching paint dry I love your video style so much 😂) My wander lust is growing now... I want to travel! Glad you got your cat fix 😊 also... was that a silent /no talking area on a train? Brilliant idea 💡 . Looking forward to the next video ❤️

[sassypigeonhq]

This is an amazing video! I can only imagine your private one!! ❤️❤️❤️ Oohh that Stonehenge clip and walking on the frozen puddle gave me goose bumps!! Amazing!!

*chants European Stationary haul video!! European Stationary Haul 🤣

Great tips. Looks like you had an amazing time! Welcome home! Xo

[racheljoyfairy]

Aaahhh...so good! Up until morning I was thinking "I'm not going to journal on my UK trip this time." Now I'm ordering Ivy printer paper, sorting pens and figuring out which journal to use. Thanks for the inspo, Erin! Travel journals truly are the best souvenir you can bring home with you. Much love to you and glad you had such a wonderful time! <3

[pimprunelle]

Hi ERIN!
I LOVE YOUR CHANNEL ❤
GREETINGS FROM SWITZERLAND 🇨🇭

[EmmaJupiter]

I'm going to be SO so honest and probably overly emotional here - I'm awful at journaling, but I really want to start because I have a massive 3.5 month Europe/UK trip coming up this winter that I want to document since I've been forgetting more and more details of trips lately, but every single 'travel journal' video I've watched has felt so inaccessible or unattainable for someone who doesn't already keep a consistent bullet/memory journal that I've been starting to get a bit discouraged. Yours is THE FIRST video I've watched that actually made me feel like this is possible and doable for me, as well as helped to adjust my mentality on the entire process. The vlog/journaling combination was wonderful, and I'm excited to be visiting a few of the same places you went around the same time you both were there as well! (It's shown me I'll definitely be needing my winter coat for Geneva, hahah)

Anyway, I know this was most likely far too personal for a youtube comment, but I just wanted to sincerely thank you for this video!

[mariahrombaoa]

So fun traveling with you!
Loved following you on ig & watching this! 😍
Hahaha! "Where are the pamphlets, I need the pamphlets!"

[mhtammi]

I bring a slim notebook with me and write on one side of the page. Afterwards I use those pages in my travel journal. Even if my writing is messy because I’m not writing at a desk or table I do it and that does make the journal more “authentic.” I collect travel ephemera and take photos. I put it all together when I get home.

[EvanLuke]

I loved watching all the places you visited in Europe. What a dream vacation! So happy for you that you had such a wonderful opportunity!!❤️❤️❤️

[evelablanche]

Premier voyage à 57 ans, road trip en Ecosse. Comme je te suis, j'ai suivi ton conseil, j'ai pris le temps de faire des notes et plein de petits prospectus, guides et autres papiers. De retour à la maison je mets en place dans mon bullet de l'année. J'adore ce que tu fais.

[ABlytheCoach]

What an epic trip, beautifully captured!