Travel - sounds

The Irish musicians in Dublin...

What kind of sounds characterised your holiday?

It might be the sounds of birds, or waves, or instruments, music, or people's accents.
What was different about the SOUND?

Travel - a sense of place

No picture to prompt you today. Start by closing your eyes for a moment and remembering the place you are writing about. Where are you standing? What can you see?

Now write - describe the place in detail using all your senses.

Travel - food

In what way was the food on your holiday or journey differrnt from what you usually have?

Travel - landscape

This was the entrance to a cave on a beach in North Cornwall. So enticing and exciting!

• How did the landscape strike you in your holiday location?
• Was it different from what you usually see?
• Did you like it?
• Would you like to live there all the time?
  

Travel - heritage

This week the writing prompts and journalling ideas are - appropriately enough for the summer holiday season - about travel. Write about a particular journey all week if you can. As a scrapbooker this should get you nicely advanced on your holiday album.

Here's my son on Brighton Pier. It was a very traditional kind of English seaside experience - must have been very similar to the seaside trips of people for generations - except for the prices!

How does your holiday compare with previous holidays and vacations? Ones that you have taken, and ones that earlier visitors to the same place may have experienced.

Travel - history

This week the writing prompts and journalling ideas are - appropriately enough for the summer holiday season - about travel. Write about a particular journey all week if you can. As a scrapbooker this should get you nicely advanced on your holiday album.

When we visited Fishbourne Roman Villa, we saw this Roman skeleton, thousands of years' old.

• How much do you know about the history of the place you visited?

Travel

This week the writing prompts and journalling ideas are - appropriately enough for the summer holiday season - about travel. Write about a particular journey all week if you can. As a scrapbooker this should get you nicely advanced on your holiday album.

• How did you travel?
• Was there anything unusual about the way you travelled?
• Did you go on any day trips?
• Did anything go wrong?

Teenagers - milestone birthdays

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Create a layout about a milestone birthday.

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Teenagers - Gadgets

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Create a layout on “Gadgets”

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Teenagers - Prom

Teenagers - day in the life

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Create a layout on “A life in a day…” How does a typical day typify a teen’s lifestyle – or your own?

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Teenagers - Secrets

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Create a layout on “What ARE you wearing?”

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Teenagers - What to wear

This week’s writing prompts are about teens. If you haven’t had teen children then apply the prompts to teen relatives or friends, or your own teenage years. Or write about all teens or teenagerhood as a concept.

Teenagers seem to belong to tribes which dictate what their personal style is – emo or goth or whatever… Much of it seems to be black, whatever their style!

And when they’re not wearing strange combinations of layers, none of which are actually appropriate to the weather, they’re in fancy dress. There is a university city I drive through regularly and there doesn’t seem to be a time (except in the holidays!) when there aren’t groups of students in fancy dress walking into town…

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Create a layout on “What ARE you wearing?”

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Teenagers - attitude

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Create a layout with a bad picture – where someone has turned away or put their hands in front of their face or similar.

Add a humorous title.

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Play - insight?

The writing prompts this week are about play:

“Play is the only way the highest intelligence of humankind can unfold.” Joseph Chilton Pearce

Has playing or experimenting ever given you an insight?

e.g., Have you learned to use a camera or software by playing?

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You probably have pictures of yourself "letting your hair down".

Use one (or more) of these to create a LO or mini-book about how you have fun...

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Play - playthings

This journal prompt is particularly for parents and those with small children in their families.

If you have a child – watch their play. What do they say? How do they play? What’s their favourite plaything of the moment?

If you haven’t a child to watch, think about yourself as a child – what did you enjoy playing with? What was your favourite plaything?

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Find a picture with a plaything on (or take one!) and create a LO with an account of why that plaything was liked and how it was used. If you haven't one of yourself with a plaything, find a picture on the Internet of one you remember.

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Travel: coming home

Daily blogging prompts give you something to write about – even if you only blog once or twice a week or less. And writing prompts are a boon for the author with writer’s block. Scrapbookers too are often stumped for ideas. Try something a bit different about your journalling…

The last in this week’s special feature of travel, today’s prompt is about: coming home. As for all the prompts this week it’s better if you select a particular past journey or trip to bear in mind as you write, but you can if you wish write more generally.

What’s it like when you get back?
Are you delighted to be home?
Relieved that the house has burned down while you’re away (or is that just me!!!)?

Travel: transport

Today’s daily blog prompt (and for writers and journallers too!) is still in our weekly topic area of travel.

Modes of transport

What’s your favourite mode of transport? What makes you feel like you’re really on a journey?

I love ferries because they have that definite holiday feel about them. If it was work, I’d be flying, but the ferry trip is part of the holiday….

Travel: getting there

If you’re a scrapbooker you may have piles of photos from holidays and other trips – do they all look alike? It can be difficult to scrap holidays and journeys differently. Follow our journalling prompts this week for seven different ways to write about your holiday.

Today think of a particular holiday – look at the photos if you like, for inspiration, and ask

So what was it like when you got there?

Was it wonderful? Did it disappoint? How did you feel as you moved in?

Travel: the journey

Travelling and journeys is such a big area to write about – and if you’re a journaller or a scrapbooker you’re bound to have notes and/or photos from your past trips.

Dig some out and think not about the PLACE you went to but how you got there. Was the journey exciting? Relaxing? Part of the holiday? Or was it a nightmare, you took 2 days to get Los Angeles, had the meeting, turned round and came home?

Write about the journey and what you remember most.