An accidental collection of hotel room keys has come about simply through forgetful-ness. It would be tricky to inadvertently tuck away a heavy thing on a key ring with a big brass room number. But the increasingly popular plastic swipe cards are so easy to forget, whether in the back of a trouser pocket with … Read more about Collecting #2: hotel room keys
In a hotel room in Heraklion the other evening, I flung my Samsonite bag open wide to retrieve a corkscrew from a handy plastic zip-up pocket inside. We’d had a long day of travel, the weather was terrible, and my husband and I needed a glass of red wine. Although we’ve been travelling around the … Read more about Collecting #1: ticket stubs
Postcards are things I’m passionate about – whether it’s browsing, writing, sending, or collecting them – so I’ve decided to write a magazine article about the travel postcard. If you share the passion and would like to share any postcard tales with me for my story, I’d love to read them. I’m keen for anything … Read more about Postcard stories
While I admit to writing personal messages on the postcards I send to people (knowing too well that a bored postman somewhere might have a read), I’ve never considered sharing secrets on a card for the world to see. But that’s exactly what thousands of people all over the planet do when they send their … Read more about Postcards: sending secrets
When I used to buy postcards I would browse the racks for hours. Or so it seemed. The card had to be just right. It had to represent as accurately as possible the things I had experienced, the places I had been, and the stuff I had seen. If there was a connection between the … Read more about Postcards: our processes of selection and identity formation