Best London Travel Planning Notebook and Travel Journal
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London Travel Planning Journal © Slow Travel Tales |
Plan your London adventure using our custom London Travel Planning Notebook. With prompts for pre travel, budget, accommodation, flight, itinerary, guidebook, and more. Our 149-page diary includes lined/dotted journal pages to record your travel experiences.
Our London and European Travel Planning Notebook and Travel Journals by Slow Travel Tales are 6" x 9" perfect bound books that are lightweight, sturdy, and flexible.
Each custom designed City Notebook features a masterpiece painting you can visit in your chosen city.
The London City Notebook cover art
features the 1881 masterpiece painting, A Bar at the Folies-Bergere, by Edouard Manet. Born in Paris, France in 1832,
Manet, who painted modern life, was an important artist during the change from
the Realism art movement to Impressionism. This painting is located at The Courtauld Institute of Art in London.
Your London
notebook journal is sure to help you manage all the details of a trip abroad. This will
allow you the opportunity to enjoy the planning process and not feel
overwhelmed by the fine points involved. The notebooks are based upon the authors own researching, planning, journaling,
and slow travel European living experiences.
There are ten individual notebooks in the Slow Travel Tales collection: Berlin, Brussels, Europe, London, Madrid, Munich, Paris, Rome, Vienna, and World. The notebooks are designed for planning an extended stay of up to 3 months. You may
also use it as a daily, weekly, or monthly planner. Each notebook is:
- Lightweight, perfect bound - 149-pages
- Comfortable, compact, good writing surface
- 80# sturdy and flexible matt cover
- Inside pages printed with black ink on #55 white paper
- Good readability, paper accepts pencil and various ink pens
- Perfect size to tuck inside a purse, messenger bag or backpack
- Lost booklet
recovery information
- Travel Journal
Start and End date box
- English, French, German, Italian and French language phrase study aid
- Pre Travel Checklist - 6 pages, 1 year out to travel day
- Airport Codes and
Travel Itinerary
- Budget and Expense
pages for Travel, Accommodation, and Living
- 3 blank monthly
calendars
- Flight, Train and
Apartment research pages with tips
- 3 page Packing
Checklist
- Neighborhood,
Activity, Special Moments, and Contact pages
- 21 lined Note pages
- 22 lined Journal pages
- 22 dotted Journal pages
- Art - 12 blank Sketch pages
- Time Zones, Measurements, and Temperature information
LONDON ACTIVITIES
To help you get started planning some London activities, we've selected several of our favorite FREE things to do in London.
To help you get started planning some London activities, we've selected several of our favorite FREE things to do in London.
TIP: It does take some time
to research, analyze, and choose interesting free activities. Before your
travel date, make a list of some London activities.
The goal is to spend more time having fun in London than searching on your
phone or laptop while there.
My favorite memories of
living abroad on a budget, are doing, seeing, and experiencing things out of
the realm of the usual tourist activities. And, the
fact that they are free activities make them even more special.
TIP: Unless you have
specific plans to eat lunch in a restaurant, in the morning before you head out
for your daily adventure, pack a lunch to take with you.
A DAY IN A LIFE IN LONDON
Depending upon what part of
London you're living in, get on the Tube and get off at:
EMBANKMENT
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© Slow Travel Tales
London - Hungerford
Golden Jubilee Bridges
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Make your way to the Hungerford / Golden Jubilee Bridges.
Walk across to the South Bank, go down the stairs onto the Queen's Walk
promenade path, then head left/east along the Thames River. Take your time as
there's much to see and marvel at. There will be boats, ferries, tugs, and
cruisers passing in both directions. The sky, clouds, and sun will be
participating in an ever changing vignette, and the river will reflect and
glisten with all the activity
SOUTHBANK SKATE SPACE
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© Slow Travel Tales - London
Southbank Undercroft Skate Space
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In recent years, the grassroots of Southbank community has implemented a restoration fundraising campaign campaign for the Southbank Undercroft Skate Space. The restoration project is expected to begin in the Spring of 2019.
With a vigilant camera eye, you'll likely come away with a motion shot of a talented skateboarder with some air time. If you yourself skateboard, don't be shy. Engage one of the young people practicing in a conversation. You never know, they might even let you borrow their skateboard for a run at it yourself.
A very good 22 minute documentary, You Can’t Move History was made by ex-pro skater Winstan Whitter and a team of creative filmmakers, skateboarders, and others who tell the story of Undercroft and it's three generational history.
LEGAL GRAFFITI WALLS
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© Slow Travel Tales - London 3/1/2012
Southbank Legal Graffiti Wall @ Undercroft
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BOOK MARKET
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© Slow Travel Tales - London
South Bank Book Market |
If you love books, you'll be thrilled with your
next encounter as you run smack into the Southbank Book Market. Their almost secret hideaway on Queen's Walk is underneath
the Waterloo Bridge. This daily outdoor market
specializes in secondhand Antique, hardcover, and paperback books.
GABRIEL'S PIER
Is a small wharf outcropping next to Ernie's Beach. You can stroll out over
the Thames
River a little more for a better photographic
vantage point. The observation outlook gives a more panoramic view of the north side of London.
BERNIE SPAIN GARDENS
Is a 26,000 sq ft garden oasis of green space named after Bernie Spain.
She was a local resident and member of the Coin Street Action Group in support of
affordable family housing and a community
park along the riverside.
TIP: Now would be a perfect time to find a spot on the green lawn to have your lunch, live like a local, and take in the sights, sounds, and serenity of a neighborhood community.
After your lunch, continue your stroll on Queen's Walk, passing Blackfriars Bridge until you arrive at another small green space before the Millennium Bridge. Look to the right and you will have arrived at the:
TATE MODERN
The art gallery houses international modern and
contemporary art. The Tate is open daily and your entrance is FREE (except for special
exhibitions). Of course you'll want to
spend several hours here going through the collections and perhaps taking one of
the hourly tours.
TIP: When you've had enough of inside art, make your way to the top floor open air viewing terrace terrace of the Tate. You'll be revived and amazed by the outside living art of the London skyline. Enjoy a drink from the bar as you take in the majesty of St. Paul's Cathedral and the panoramic view of Central London.
Whenever you're ready to call it an afternoon, you may exit the Tate at the river bank and walk across the:
MILLENNIUM BRIDGE
Is a pedestrian crossing footbridge over the River Thames that
links Bankside with the City of London. Construction first
began in 1998 and it opened in June of 2000. However, after a couple days of over 100,000
people traversing the bridge, the decision was made to temporarily close it in order to
dampen the swaying effect which occurred as each person walked on their way.
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St. Paul's Cathedral
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We trust that this itinerary for a one day adventure of living in London on a budget will inspire you to get started on planning your trip with the help of the London Travel Planning Notebook by Slow Travel Tales.
More one day itineraries may be found for other European cities in our notebook collections.
EVENTS:
June, July, August - The Southbank Centre and The Central Bar at the Royal Festival Hall invite you to join music lovers at the Free lunchtime Friday Lunch Concert series.
April - Join thousands of participants for the London Marathon
EDUCATION:
London has something extra special; the most wonderful Adult Education institute you could ever hope to find - City Literary Institute aka City Lit. Located in Covent Garden, they offer thousands of short learning courses. You may choose from a one day or weekly class to year-long programs. With daytime, evening, and weekend classes, you're sure to find something of interest. During my time living in London, I took a semester of 12 week classes in creative writing, French and Flamenco dance.
Learn more about Art and Culture in Europe, including museum and cathedral visits, educational opportunities and events to participate in.
Bon Voyage
Art • Travel • Write
© Slow Travel Tales
SLOW TRAVEL TALES
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness…”
from the book “Innocents Abroad” by Mark Twain
“Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness…”
from the book “Innocents Abroad” by Mark Twain
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