10 best travel journals – don’t leave home without them

A good travel journal is more than a place to jot down where you went and what you ate – it becomes a pocket-sized time capsule of the journey. The best ones make it easy to capture the little details: a museum ticket tucked into an inner pocket, a sketch of a street corner, the name of that tiny restaurant where the cacio e pepe was out of this world. From beautifully bound notebooks to guided journals with clever prompts, these are the travel companions worth packing.

Cavallini & Co, £13.50 144 lined pages, elastic closure, inside back pocket, 15 x 20cm

Smythson Off The Beaten Track Soho travel journal, £195 Lambskin cover, 384 lined pages, pale blue paper, 14 x 19.6cm

Moleskine Traveller’s Journal, £24.99 400 plain pages split into three sections (Travel memories & wish list, Short trips, Long trips), elastic closure, inside back pocket, hardback, 13 x 21cm

Yamamoto Paper mini notebook, £7 Waxed paper cover (which ages beautifully), 60 plain pages, 8.8 x 12.5cm. Perfect for making notes on the move

Paper High large sari fabric journal, £16.95 Handmade in India using sari fabric from Varanasi and unlined khadda (recycled cotton) paper, 14 x 18.5cm

Moleskin Voyageur notebook, £14.95 Designed to store printed emails, itineraries and maps. Clothbound hard cover, elastic closure, inner back pocket, 208 pages, with detachable packing and to-do list pages, a travel planning section, expenditure pages for budgeting – a lot packed into a small package. 11.5 x 17.5cm

Papier Off Piste travel journal, £29 Hardback 192-page notebook separated into six journeys, with space to scribble budgets, itineraries, packing lists and wishlists as well as journal in each. 15 x 21.5cm

Grupo Erik Hokusai travel journal, £15 Inside the PU cover are two separate notebooks, one lined and one unlined, totalling 80 pages, three slots for storing cards and a zipped plastic pocket. 12 x 20cm

Standard Issue planner notebook, £15 Hardback with red elasticated pen holder on front, 192 lined pages with day and month headers, wire binding, 15 x 21cm

Peter Pauper travel journal, £10 Hardback with magnetic closure, 160 lined pages, internal pocket, 13 x 18cm. A great value option.

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