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West Hoe Road This week we completed more fieldwork on the Millbay Residency down on the quays in Plymouth. It was an opportunity to try the new single document format for Dialogue Journaling in Google Docs and Google Drive for the first time. Some inspiring imagery from Mark and the chance to map out more of the route with Clarisse took us to the eastern-most edge of our territory so far. It was the fork where West Hoe Road becomes Redford Road, and Mayflower College stands in the upturned letter Y where the Great Western Road begins its journey south. Cawfee near the Octagon But back to the beginning of the day, for a moment. The team arrived early on Tuesday 25th April, so we had to find a plateau to sit, write and plan. Cawfee at 104 Union St, Stonehouse, Plymouth PL1 3HL was open, and only a short step from the Octagon and the entrance to the EU-funded flood defence system called Millbay Boulevard. The marshlands of Bath Street were regenerated just below the surface here and new ...

Can a Travel Writer be an Environmental Activist?   In the countdown to World Environment Day, we tried to find travel writers online who are activists for the planet. T.W.O. put out a call, using citizen science, across a range of social media channels to ask who knew of any environment activist travel writers. The first responses are starting to arrive. Please feel free to send us yours using the Comments below, or on your preferred social media platform. #enactwrite Wild flower planting in the tourism space on the route from the University of Caen to the Château de Caen, Normandy. Photo: Dr C. Mansfield 9th May 2022. First to appear on Thursday morning, 20th April 2023, in our research for the list is Shivya Nath , author of the best-selling book The Shooting Star nominated by Saumya Kapil via LinkedIn. Shivya is on LinkedIn at and the book is on Goodreads and on Amazon, link below: Mike MacEacheran on Twitter as ‪@MikeMacEacheran‬ was announed Winner: Sustainable Trave...

The Ice Moons of Jupiter The European Space Agency launched Juice today 14th April 2023  The start of an 8 year journey to explore these moons of Jupiter: Ganymede, Callisto and Europa. Planned to arrive in July 2031 I wanted journal the moment here so that we can remember this day when the first images come back in summer 2031. Alongside the ice moons mission is my own wilding mission, using seeds from The Pretty Wild Seeds Store    Dateline: 14th April 2023... (c) ESA/CNES/Arianespace Wild Flower Wilding And back here on our own planet I have sown a native wild flower mix on a cleared patch of Italian rye grass. A small step for re-wilding and supporting the pollinators here on earth. The results should appear much sooner than Juice’s pictures, please check back on this magazine blog post in late July 2023. More updates will be added. Native Wild flower Mix - View on Amazon Ox-Eye Daisy, Lady's Bedstraw, Field Poppy, Corncockle, Meadow Buttercup, Cornflower, Foxglove,...

Millbay Residency Our Millbay Residency on place-making has been gently moving forward during the colder months of early 2023 but late in April, we plan a longer fieldwork activity starting at The Plot on Union Street, Plymouth UK, then heading down the new Millbay Boulevard. In this post to the magazine blog, Travel Writers Online , I do not want to give away too much about our mapping so far. I do want to concentrate on the repurposing work I’ve done using Google Docs, Google Drive and the Dialogue Journaling template from our textbook, Travel Writing for Tourism and City Branding (2023) from Routledge. Google Docs on Google Drive  Back in February, after a message from Kai-Sean at the University of Tennessee, who had just bought our textbook from Routledge for travel writers, I made the journaling templates available for free download. They are available in Microsoft format for OneNote and for WORD to share with colleagues on OneDrive. I also created a Google Drive and Google D...

Hand-drawn Maps In our tourism research project on Brežice, Slovenia we reached the stage of hand-drawing route maps on which to create a hexis for later literary travel writing by the end of March 2023. We were still in the first phase of the process, which in our tourism textbook for travel writers and place-branding we call 'Step 1. Deep-mapping', Table 5.7 page 96.  The processual approach, where we work via dialogue journaling, began to yield up two emerging findings. One, which I will expand fully here, is the unknown town syndrome, and the other is linked to Paul Rabinow's (2007) Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco . It is the point where Rabinow develops Paul Ricœur's idea that meaning is discovered in what follows an event.   Even though I’ve been thinking about Brežice for a long time now, it is still unknown to me, and to the readers of this blog. How do the tourist office there tell English-speaking people from Britain or the US that their town of just 6,800...