Over the past month. I've been to 11 different cities across six different countries and I've been journaling the whole thing in this little notebook right here and I've learned a lot about travel journaling so I have some tips for you and I thought I'd share so coming to you live from Hyde Park London. Here are my tips for travel journaling. Video is part flip through part. My travel journaling tips and part. Vlogs so I hope you enjoy strappy and I'll tell you all about the stationery I've used to make this journal come to life a little bit later. On and of course there'll be links to everything in the description as always too. I ended up sticking all of my extra stuff that I didn't know where to put on the first end sheet and the first page this setup you can see at the link up in the top corner here. These are the spreads. I set up before I left for the trip so that I would have useful things like my itinerary and a packing list and stuff like that to be honest. I didn't end up using my packing list. I found I was ticking things off after we'd already left the city and so I just kind of gave up on it after a while as you can see here but I did really heavily use the next page. Which was for the trackers that I keep in my main bullet Journal so I could transfer that stuff like social media at the end of the month and income and expenses and stuff into my big journal and these were my research pages so I had an idea of what I wanted to do in each City. We were visiting before. I got there. And what currency and what side of escalators to stand on and things like that trip cost breakdown yet. I haven't tallied everything up but even if I had I would have blurted out so you can see it anyway for now. Let's get traveling first. English common space of the hotel and making a huge mess. But it's fun while we flip through my London Pages here I want to give you my first and possibly most important travel journaling tip take all of that pressure for Perfection off yourself give yourself permission to be messy and imperfect in this journal and it's going to make your life a lot easier.

Traveling can be messy delayed flights and stuff like that and wearing the same clothes for ages on end like it's okay for your journal to also reflect that mess but you need to give yourself permission to not be perfect. I know it's a big problem for a lot of us but your memories don't have to be perfect to be worth remembering so neither should your Journal please that is Stonehenge right there. My next tip is to seek out and then hang on to brochures and pamphlets from the places you visit on your trip and then. Harvest them for photos and information for your Journal this way if you're not the greatest photographer or you can't include photos in your Journal that you've taken in real time. Then you can still have a beautiful source of pictures and maybe you'll learn some stuff once you come home that you didn't actually realize while you were at that attraction that can mean brochures from the places you visit like you see me using a lot here and our Pub trivia sheet from the one night that we did Pub trivia while we were in Bath it can also be tickets and receipts and boarding passes and things like that. I don't like to keep my boarding passes but if you do then by all means put a mini Journal. Absolutely thank you. It can be really difficult while you're traveling and on this unusual. Whirlwind schedule to find time to journal. But you're going to have to make time to journal on the trip if you want to be doing it in real time if you don't really want to do it you just won't something that works really well for a lot of people is to keep notes in their phone of the things that go on and collect pamphlets and tickets and things and then fill out their Journal once they get home. I tried to make sure I was journaling every night because I forget things quickly but it didn't always happen and that's fine too all right come on around thank you.

One of my biggest tips is that you're going to need to journal when you have time so right now we're at Dublin Airport. We're waiting for our flight to board. It's going to be a couple of hours we're through security so. I've grabbed up my journal. I've grabbed out my stuff. It's a little bit loud sorry about that and I'm gonna do some journaling while we wait for the gate to open while I eat some Burger King foreign. I just wanted to speak a little bit more on journaling in your forced downtime is what. I'm calling it so at airports while you're waiting for your gate to be announced or your flight to be called for boarding on planes and on trains every time. I was a couple of days behind in my journal. I used the time at the airport or on the plane or on the train to get caught up on my journal it did mean. I didn't get as many books read as I thought I would on holiday but I think it was worth it. This is a really good example of a chance to get some journaling done in your downtime. So we're on holidays for a month. Which means at some point. We have to watch some clothes so while my clothes wash. I can Journal oh I feel like I've stepped into my December bullet Journal with all the gingerbread houses and Christmas is having the best time kicking the snow. That's my partner. Chris you can see just having way too much fun in the snow. It doesn't snow where we live so that was really a big novelty for us. I just wanted to give Chris a big shout out because he always let me shower first so I could get some journaling done before I went to bed. Here's an equipment related travel journaling tip for you be really ruthless when you're deciding what you're going to bring with you and try and keep your kit as small as possible. I know that sounds like really obvious advice but I brought too much stuff and I'm going to talk about it later. I'll show you everything that I brought but I'd say as a general rule maybe just bring one of each variety of stationery but make sure that variety of stationery is full or brand new because I took for instance a washi tape that I had used in my journal in the past and I ran out of it halfway through the trip and I was using it quite a bit and then I had no washi tape for the second half of my journal but I also brought some paper products that I definitely could have done without so try to be really ruthless.

And maybe even bring a little bit less than you think you need. We're in Rome right now and while we are on the plane on the way here I was doing some journaling as you do on planes and I ran out of two things I ran out of a washi tape which was the only washi tape that I brought with me. I used it more than I thought I would and I ran out of my glue tape as well. This one is kind of a killer. I need this. I still have about a week of this trip left. Where on week three at the moment and I've done a lot of journaling clearly because this is gone so if you're doing a similar style of journaling to me maybe bring more glue tape than you think you need but I put the call out on Instagram. And some of you guys are giving me tips on where to get stationery in Rome. So thank you for that. I'm going to replace this at some point soon because I've got all of these bits from France that I haven't stuck in the journal yet and I don't like to leave space and come back and fill it out later because I don't know how many pages I'm gonna need but while we're here and we're talking about stuff that I brought with me on the trip. I thought it might be fun to show you what else I brought with me on the trip so obviously I have a journal. This is the floating clouds journal from the washi tape shop. This is their large size. It is not as compared to my head for size here because. I don't have my other journals to show you. It's not a very big. Journal it is smaller than A5. I am giving it a workout. She's she she's Hefty now. So that's the journal. I do recommend bringing a small Journal not a huge one because you're going to have to Lug it around especially if you're doing a full like more than four week holiday like me the less stuff you have to carry around the better.

I'm using this pencil case I got it on Sheen. It's available everywhere. Everyone sells this pencil case. It's on AliExpress it's on Sheen. It's on the other retailers. I think stationary pal have it these days too. It's got a pocket in the front. It's got one big. Zippy pocket and then on the inside. It's got a zippy pocket here with some mesh a little pocket here with some pen. Elastic fits tombers. And a big cabin in here. For the rest of your stuff and it's expandable. I brought two Sakura pigma microns in the O3. Which is my favorite size for everyday writing. I brought two because I couldn't remember if I'd used one of them or not and I was worried about one of my pens running out so I've just been using whichever one I grab. I have put washi tape on the bottom different. Washi tapes so that I can tell which pen is which I brought one of the Pentel whatever. I can't remember what these are called. It's a brush pen. I like these. I haven't really used it because I also brought a set of Jewel tip brush pens. I thought this would give me the most bang for my buck. Because you've got one two three four five six pens in the set these are creatake. Zig dual tip brush pens and the cool thing about these ones not only are they. Jewel tipped they have a brush tip on each end and one side of them are bright like saturated colors and the other side are pastel so I thought I will bring six colored pens and in the process I will have 12 colored pens because they're a little bit different and I've actually been using a different color for each City that I visit to which is fun and when I run out of these colors I now have face colors because I bought some pens something I've been using intensely is the HP sprocket mini printer you can also get a Canon Ivy. There are probably others that.

I don't know about. It's a bluetooth printer. It doesn't need any ink the photos do. Fade over time but I don't care so I'm gonna use it anyway because it's great. They don't make this printer anymore. I got mine second hand on Facebook Marketplace. They do still make the paper but I've been using the Canon paper because it's a little bit more affordable. The beginning of a new packet of paper has a little blue card at the beginning. So if you just take out the HP card from a pack of the HP printer sticker paper and replace the Canon one with that. When you load up the printer it still works just fine and you can save some dollars so. I bought a 10 pack of these. You get 10 10 10 pieces of sticker paper in each packet. I've been working my way through them. I've only got four packets left. Plus whatever is in the printer this. I've used so much in my journal. I print like two or three photos from each day. I brought a tiny pair of scissors. They're fine they're a little uncomfortable but they're small. I have been able to take these on planes which I didn't think I would be able to do. I'd been putting them in my checked bag and I forgot at one of the airports and it was in here and they let me through with it and I was like. Oh that's interesting and then apparently some airports will let you do that. Maybe if you're traveling and you want to bring scissors look it up first of course. I have been keeping things from the places that we visit. I walk into a place and I'm like where are the pamphlets. I need the pamphlets. Sometimes if it's really pretty and I think it's got good info in it. I will take two so that I can Harvest both the text and the pictures. I'm really enjoying illustrating my stuff with those things which is why I ran out of glue tape evidently and I brought a couple of other things that I found. I haven't really been using so I figured we should talk about that. I brought a selection and dropping them all over the table of stickers. I haven't really used them because they haven't really fit the places that we've been.

I bought this little sticker book. It's passport sized from Mark's Melos on Etsy I had like a little stockpile to bring on the trip and uh guess what I haven't used many of these either. I also brought this little paper set. This is from stationery pal. I have been forcing myself to use these and I think they're really pretty. I don't know if I'd bring these if I had my time over and also some other random. Bits of Paper. I haven't really used unless I was like. Oh I should use those papers not because I was like you know what would be perfect for this page. There's papers so the less stuff you bring the better anyway. It is our first day in Rome. So we're gonna go eat some pizza probably and find some cats because I miss mine. Here's my best tip for travel journaling when you're really tired and you don't want to do it dot points baby. Just write yourself a list of all of the things you did that day and then you can come back to it later and flesh it all out and there's nothing wrong with that. Write yourself a list and if you're here watching journaling videos chances are you already love lists foreign while we check out my Venice Pages here I just wanted to take a sec to ask you to hit subscribe and the like button. If you're enjoying this video come join my little internet journaling family foreign. We've made it to almost the very end of the book. Certainly the very end of the trip we went back to London to get back home to Australia. And this is when we had the biggest baggage allowance for the flight home so this is when we did all of our shopping. I mentioned this earlier as text as an overlay on the video but I did buy some stationery while we were away. So if you want to see that let me know maybe. I can make a video showing you like a Europe stationery haul. Let me know if that's something you'd want to see. I still plan to tally up all of my expenses for February on the holiday so there are some pages left.

I'll use a couple of but I've almost finished the whole book which is so incredibly satisfying that's all I got for you about travel journaling. I hope you have learned something from this video. Jump into the comments down below and let me know if you like to travel journal and if you have any tips for me because I'll happily take them. Thank you if you want to see more behind the scenes of my travels you can jump onto my Instagram. I am at aaronsmith.art and I have some stories highlights of all of the things that we did in all of the places. I post new videos here every Friday evening. Australian time. So hit. Subscribe if you'd like to see more from me and I hope to see you again next week bye foreign.