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Preparing for Journaling in the Field This three-step activity for bloggers aims to get you started with your own travel blog writing. It takes you through the design of three posts to your blog. The 3 steps aim to give you direct practice in journaling, making field notes, preparing for fieldwork and keeping a record of your practice for later analysis. You will need notebooks for your fieldnotes. I always have a stock of these Black n' Red. The wire bound spine lets the notebook open flat and the hardback provides support for writing when standing up.  The other learning objectives are to understand how human memory and passing time have been conceptualised and how these can help in your evolving identity as a productive writer. Finally, it is an opportunity to start to think about the literary concepts of the addressee and deixis. Google Blogger is free web logging software with free server space. Please try a Google Blogspot, if you have not already set up your blog with anothe

I was invited to give this talk to final year Cruise Management undergraduates, They are working on a travel blogging activity for their assessed fieldwork in Belgium.  Here are my Powerpoint slides if you would like to go through them again. They are stored on my Google Drive, so for the best viewing experience it is worth using your free Google login, or opening a free Google Mail and Google Account. This will also give you free cloud storage for your presentations. Travels in search of

I am just finishing reading Rossi’s Régine ; the story did drift into an autobiography with no real plot. From a literary tourism point of view the streets in the district to the east of the city centre of Nantes might hold a fascination for followers of Rossi’s writing or for the diaspora of those who grew up during the twentieth century in the city.  I plan to start his later book before the fieldtrip to Nantes. 

 Students and colleagues have asked me to upload my Zoom lectures. Please find them on my YouTube channel at  Youtube.com CharlieMansfield  As you will see, they mostly explore literary travel writing and blogging in a tourism management context: Please subscribe when you are in the channel