The Story Behind the Guides

Origin

Hi, I'm Simone. I studied Travel and Tourism at college, then Hospitality and Tourism at university. Not as a backup plan. Because I genuinely wanted to spend my life in it.

Then came the sensible detour. Corporate career, family, good salary, diary full of meetings. Travel became something I squeezed into annual leave rather than something I built my life around.

It didn't stick.

The trip that changed it was the Philippines. Slow, no agenda, nowhere to be. The kind of holiday where you stay longer than planned because there's no reason not to. After that I couldn't travel fast again if I tried.

The real turning point was Sri Lanka in 2025. I wanted to plan it properly and immediately hit a wall: two monsoon seasons, no reliable way to know which coast to be on when, and a Facebook group full of tour companies I didn't know whether to trust. The information was out there. Knowing who to trust was the problem.

That's where The Travel Log started. I built the guides I needed and didn't have. Properly researched, honestly written, no filler, no sponsored opinion dressed up as a recommendation.

If you want practical guidance you can actually trust — on where to go, what to skip, and how not to waste half your trip figuring out the basics — that's what I'm here for.

The Problem

Planning a trip shouldn't take three weeks and twenty open tabs.

You've saved the TikTok. You've got the hotel screenshot. You've added the restaurant to a list you can't find anymore. And somewhere between the inspiration and the booking, the whole thing falls apart.

  • Perhaps you're the person with 200 saved posts and no idea where to actually start.

  • Perhaps you've got two weeks of annual leave and no time to spend it all researching.

  • Perhaps it's your first time travelling solo and you want to feel confident before you land.

  • Or perhaps you just want to make the most of every day without wasting half of it figuring out where to eat.

I've been there. I've also planned enough trips to know that the information exists — it's just buried, scattered, or written for someone with a completely different travel style to you.

That gap between "I want to go" and "I've actually booked it" is what The Travel Log is built to close.

The Travel Log Method

Step 1: Find

the places worth going to, filtered out from the ones TikTok just decided were aesthetic this week

Every guide I create follows the same four steps:

Step 2: Filter

by what actually matters: your budget, your travel style, how many days you have

Step 3: Map

everything pinned and ready to open on your phone, offline, the moment you land

Step 4: Go

Book the trip. The planning is done for you. No last-minute Googling, no tourist traps, no wasted half-days figuring out where to eat

What The Travel Log Offers

Bespoke Travel Planning

Rather have someone in your corner? I offer three ways to work together: a 30-minute planning chat to work through your logistics, an itinerary audit where I review your own plan and give recommendations, and a fully bespoke itinerary built from scratch with Google Maps pins and booking links included.

Working with brands

If you're a travel, hotel, or lifestyle brand looking to reach an audience that actually books trips — I work with brands on UGC, sponsored content, and guide placements.

Travel Guides & Itineraries

Marrakech, Sri Lanka, and more in the works. Each guide is a day-by-day plan with hotel picks, restaurant edits, logistics, and Google Maps pins — built to open on your phone the moment you land.

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