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Caen and Ouistreham Group in WhatsApp Community

Caen and Ouistreham Group in WhatsApp Community

Have you tried setting-up a WhatsApp Community, yet? If you have been using WhatsApp with work colleagues or with friends for a while, then it is easy to do. A WhatsApp Community is a dialogue space to share an interest. The Community can grow and so you can divide it into Groups. In October 2024 we started a WhatsApp Community called French Travel and Books, and designed a logo of open books in the colours of the French flag:


WhatsApp Group

Soon, we realised it was a broad topic and so began to create Groups within the Community to share news and ideas for regions and cities. The aim began to form that it would be a space for collecting favourite holiday reading for visitors to these places. I am interested in Ouistreham and Caen because I completed fieldwork in November 2024, and the WhatsApp Group ran live alongside the travel and my stay in the port town. 


Fieldwork in Ouistreham

During my fieldwork in the town I was drawn to the cluster of older buidlings around the square called Place A. Lemarignier. This was initially because I was meeting with Sophie, the artist in residence in a converted fishing house overlooking the square but also because I was drawn to this higher ground and the street name, Grande Rue.


As you can see on my inset map the old post office overlooks the square, too. It no longer operates as the town post office but the building still has its plaque just over the door, please see my photograph below


I was so pleased I had captured a photograph of the old post office here when I discovered this in the novel we were reading together in the WhatsApp group: 





Here is the book in English translation if you'd like to read more



Please click on the orange logo above to read an updated post on the fieldwork in Ouistreham. Or follow this link https://travelwritersonline.blogspot.com/2024/10/ouistreham.html

 



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