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Best travel journals of 2024 to record your trips

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Memory is inherently fallible, and without the means to record life's most precious moments, we risk letting them slip into the abyss.

Journalling is a wonderful tool that not only helps us work through overwhelming emotions and experiences but ensures that we record memories both big and small, no matter how insignificant they may seem at the time of writing.

This tactile, meditative habit becomes all the more important when travelling. Whether you’re embarking on a weekend-long sojourn within the UK or backpacking across South America, there are bound to be moments throughout your trip that you’ll wish you jotted down the details of when the exact anecdote escapes you.

That means writing about the seemingly mundane; including inherently boring travel

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