5 ways to capture your travel memories
It’s never been more important to preserve memories that make us feel good. And every trip we enjoy overseas is utterly priceless and should be well recorded! While some people pick up t-shirts and fridge magnets whilst visiting somewhere new, there are other ways you can capture your travel memories and the essence of your latest trip.
Read on for 5 ways to capture your travel memories.
Photos
Surrounding ourselves with positivity is good for our mental health and our outlook, so if you've got hundreds of travel photos sitting in a box somewhere or trapped inside your phone, you could be denying yourself some much-needed positivity. You can keep things simple and order some canvas pictures for your bedroom wall, or consider creating a photo wall with individual picture tiles which is easy and free to make by the use of an online photo editor. Photo albums are a classic yet incredibly thoughtful way to preserve your photos and you can easily return to them year after year, share them with friends and pass them on to your children.
Send super cool postcards – to yourself!
Postcards are a super cute way to remember your trip and document it as you move from destination to destination. However, finding postcards in remote areas and running the risk of your postcard never reaching your post-box can often dampen your efforts.
Thankfully, these days technology and apps make the process much more fun and reliable! Services that allow you to snap photographs, turn them into postcards and send them via the app to your home from anywhere in the world are the perfect way to make and preserve travel mementos. Download the app before you travel!
A travel video
Remember those old grainy home videos of family holidays? Thankfully these days, camera technology has moved on so much we all carry a high-quality video camera in our pockets. Recording your travels and then editing it into a fantastic travel video is something you'll love to return to again and again.
Don’t worry, you won’t have to record every second of your trip and spend most of your time behind the camera, even just small snippets of your travels can be pieced together into a breath-taking montage you can watch as often as you wish! Don’t forget to brush up on some simple smartphone filming tips to make the most of your video.
Keep a live travel journal
Keeping a journal is incredibly personal, and you don't have to worry about sharing it with anyone but yourself. All those personal memories, emotions and moments on the road can be jotted down and kept safe in your very own live travel journal. It's a wonderful way to capture the essence of travel.
And finally, memory boxes
If you're collecting trinkets and mementos along the way, then storing them in labelled boxes for each destination is a cute way of keeping everything organised and special. Bottles of sand from the beach, plane tickets to each destination, ticket stubs, coins and notes, shells, keyrings, the scarf that kept you warm during your hike etc. If you don’t fancy storing items in bulky boxes, consider adding them to shadow frames and displaying them on your walls at home.