Journey Jottings

Covid-19 has brought innumerable changes - We have been shunted onto an unplanned track that is proving to be our saviour - slow-travel in Tasmania The post Next Stop – Covid-19… All Change...

https://journeyjottings.com/blog/2021/01/next-stop-covid-19-all-change/

While on a camping trip in Tasmania COVID-19 and lockdown happened forcing us to stay put in NW Tasmania, when... my husband had a stroke The post Cocooned in a Caravan during Coronavirus, When...

https://journeyjottings.com/blog/2020/05/cocooned-in-a-caravan-during-coronavirus-when/

Many Australians dream of doing the “Big Lap”* at some point in their lives – (* a road trip that goes right around Australia, which if you keep to the main highways and don’t deviate, i...

https://journeyjottings.com/blog/2019/03/the-big-lap-around-australia-50-times/

Kayaking the Abel Tasman is sublime! Here is a photo account of my two days paddling down the NW South Island coast of NZ. The post Kayak Abel Tasman – Exploring NZ’s South Island NP from t...

https://journeyjottings.com/blog/2018/02/kayak-abel-tasman/

“I’m going on an adventure!” J.R.R. Tolkien I was standing in the British Library in London looking down into a museum cabinet where beneath a layer of glass, lay an original map of Mordor....

https://journeyjottings.com/blog/2017/05/mordor-map/

“No sketches first, no studies, that’s long past: I do what many dream of, all their lives… Well, less is more… “ Robert Browning (1812–1889) from his poem (1855) ‘speaking’ as ar...

https://journeyjottings.com/blog/2017/03/less-is-more-way-of-travel-journalling/

Inspiration not only feels like a breath of fresh air – It literally is a breath of fresh air! While the word ‘inspire’ figuratively means to excite, rouse and inflame: fill (someone) with ...

https://journeyjottings.com/blog/2017/01/inspiration-a-breath-of-fresh-air/