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Reading Feast and Roscoff

 




This weekend is turning into a reading feast of travel writing on Finistère.  I subscribed to the travel writing magazine, hidden europe, back in 2015 and in my third issue, actually issue number 48, the central feature covers the chapels of Finistère, contributed by Patricia Stoughton.  A thoroughly researched piece, in keeping with the stated aims of editors, Nicky Gardner and Susanne Kries, Stoughton lets us meet a local history enthusiast and shows us the chapelle Sainte-Barbe on the headland at Roscoff.   We in Tourism know the little granite-built chapel very well; it has been our first stopping point on our fieldwork in Brittany since 2009, my own review still survives on Google Places at https://goo.gl/d8j2fT

The coincidences do not stop there, though, Zoë, our very first Travel Writing Research Master, has just re-drafted her travel article on our field trip to Quimper in, yes, Finistère.  And I’ve been enjoying the new version of that, too.  Like Stoughton, Zoë Roberts introduces characterisation to provide more specialist tourism knowledge for her readers, whilst reinforcing the feeling that we, like her, are there in contact with a local, helping us understand the culture of Brittany.

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