Why I should take better notes while traveling
Posted on 03 February 2009
So I’d know where this is.
I know it’s a tiny village off the road from Sarlat to Terrasson in the Dordogne, but I don’t know the name and can’t figure it out from looking at the map. It’s been bugging me lately because I have my screen saver set to the folder from our 2007 trip, and I keep seeing it and wondering. We looked out over this view while having lunch in a little restaurant whose proprietor also did stone sculptures like the one at the right. I mentioned the lunch in my blog entry for the day, but didn’t bother with the name.
I guess we’ll just have to go back and find it. As I remember, the food wasn’t spectacular, but it was such a lovely day in the little garden with the mannerly cat and lichen-covered statues of fat little animals that it didn’t matter.
Is it just me? Does everyone else keep better notes of things like this?
9 responses to Why I should take better notes while traveling
Well, it’s several months later, but today I happened upon another photo from this lunch and decided I had to find the name of the village.
It’s Saint-Geniès, and the restaurant is La Vieille Auberge.
It really was a lovely tiny village.
I never used to but now I try. On my last trip to Mexico there were sooo many difficult names so I am glad I took notes.
I keep a little journal in my bag and everytime I sit down for coffee or whatever, I jot down what I’ve done so far that day. I take photos of signs too, or landmarks I recognize, but I still have to put some effort into figuring my photos out when I get home.
It is comforting to hear that this happens to other people as well. It frustrates me to no end. Perhaps we need a ‘travel’ self-help group! LOL
Perhaps I should just post a pic on slowtravel and ask if anyone knows what or where it is!
Girasoli’s idea is a great one.
I’m like Girasoli but lately, I’ve even forgotten those pictures. It’s killing me like you because I’m trying to recreate details of trips and I can’t. I used to be so good to at taking notes…
The last week of our Piemonte trip is “lost” to me, as I killed the laptop and didn’t continue to take daily notes. I have photos, but as I look at the map I dimly recall towns and sights, where we ate, some town or…other without the means to put them together and glue the memories in place. As much as a pain it can be to blog during a trip, I do find that the trips I’ve done a daily detailed blog on are the ones that now are much stronger in detailed memory for me.
I wish I can say I take better notes, but I don’t. I get so “absorbed’ in the moment that I..forget to take a note, but like girasoli, I try to take photos of signs and such. Maybe blogging will help me.
Great suggestion! I hope I remember that on our next trip.
Beautiful photos! Once I started using digital cameras, I now take pictures of signs, as a way of keeping notes. I also take pictures of landmarks to help me so I won’t get lost finding my way.