Examples of when to use "journey", "trip" and "travel"

·  The journey from London to Newcastle by train can now be completed in
   under three hours.

·  How long did your journey take?  Oh, it lasted for ever. We stopped at
  every small station.

·  We journeyed /travelled between the pyramids in Mexico on horseback.

·  I went on a day trip to France. We left at 6.30 in the morning and returned
  before midnight the same day.

·  I love to travel during the summer holidays. This year I plan to travel all
  around the Iberian Peninsula.

·  Make sure you keep all your travel documents safely.


General Rule

Travel is the general term to describe going from one place to another.
Travelling is also a general term which refers to the activity of travel. Travel often crops up as part of compound nouns.

A journey (noun) is one single piece of travel. You make journeys when you travel from one place to another. (Note that the plural is spelt journeys, not journies). We occasionally use journey as a verb as an alternative to travel, although it may sound a bit formal or poetic:

A trip(noun) usually involves more than one single journey. We talk about day trips, round trips and business trips. We make journeys usually, but we go on trips: