What To Pack Travel Journals

The Sunday Age

Sunday February 6, 2000

Lonely Planet Travel Journal, $17.95

Neat and lightweight, LP's soft cover, spiral-bound journal is a simple affair - ruled on one side of the page and blank on the other. There are continent maps, calenders, a travel schedule section, a list of useful websites, a conversion page and an address section.

Angus & Robertson Bookworld, Collins Bookstores, Myer and Dymocks.

MacStyle Travel Diary, $16.95

Complete with ordered itinerary section, expenses, photographic and traveller's cheque records, time and conversion charts, dialling codes, language and currency sections, climatic data, overseas mission addresses and maps, this inconspicuous little spiral notebook has the lot.

Mapland, 372 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne. Tel: (03) 9670 4383.

Little Hills Press Travel Diary, $16.95

This diary isn't spiral-bound but it does have a sturdy cover, general travel advice (currency, climate, driving condition/precautions) on various European nations and America, and contains every conversion and record-keeping chart imaginable.

Mapland, 372 Little Bourke Street, Melbourne. Tel: (03) 9670 4383.

Go Traveller's Notes, $9.50

This little notebook slips into your back pocket. It comes with a dirt-proof plastic cover, a clip-on pen, and has a couple of back pages devoted to addresses and personal/medical details.

The Shaver Shop, Myer stores, David Jones, RACV outlets, Aussie Disposals stores and Daimaru.

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