Forget Me Not

Posted by Valerie, Senior Editor

For every traveler who has any taste of his own, the only useful guidebook will be the one which he himself has written.

This quote from Aldous Huxley is printed on the first page of Moleskine's new City Notebook for New York. And Huxley's right: Once a restaurant, hotel, bar, or shop has been written up in enough travel guides, magazines, or, ahem, blogs, it almost inevitably begins to lose some of its charm; meanwhile, the little places you've just happened upon become all the more memorable by comparison.

To help you hold on to those gems, Moleskine -- the storied purveyor of writers' and artists' notebooks for two centuries -- is releasing City Notebooks for New York, Boston, San Francisco, and Washington, D.C., next month (the line currently features 12 European cities). There are blank pages with tabs, maps, perforated note pages, and stickers to mark galleries, markets, museums, hotels, even gestures and words. There's also tracing paper that lets you mark a path or route -- but there are absolutely no recommendations. Those are up to you, and your fellow travelers, to find.

Comments

[samantha]

This is like a book version of this site: http://girlsguidetocitylife.com. I always wanted to write for that site or some place like it but have zero professional writing skills. I love this Moleskin idea - will make me feel like a travel writer for my own city!!

[annezilla]

I love this idea. Their notebooks are great quality and I cannot WAIT for the SF version to come out.