Tag: travel journal

This week I’m reviving my “Tales from My Travel Journal” series with a lovely extract from a reader’s journal written in India, in 1992.

We’re in the second week of our Balkan trip. Driving down the Croatian coast, and remembering why we travel in the first place.

Years ago when Hubby and I were on our first canoe trip in Algonquin Park,  I thought we would never, ever get to our campsite. Paddling is slow business, and takes endurance and patience. Like the proverbial kid in the …

I’ve kept a travel journal for years. I started recording our canoeing adventures back in the eighties, mostly because pictures cannot capture the essence of a trip like words can. Pictures cannot convey the misery of a sleepless night in …