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Fieldwork in Brežice, Slovenia Our first day of fieldwork was Monday 15th May 2023. We made a planned walk into town along Old Justice Street, Ulica stare pravde , and made a stop at the water tower, Vodovodni stolp Brežice. The weather was brightening all the time after a couple of rainy days. The Posavje I made my first visit to The Posavje Museum in Brežice just before 5 o'clock on Tuesday 16th May 2023. That was my reconnaissance visit aiming to look in almost every room for first impressions and to see if any artefact would stay in my memory for later detailed investigation. I also had in mind the painting from the museum's web list, of the hay-drying racks and buckwheat in flower by Miroslav Kugler because we had discussed that on the dialogue platform before my visit to the university tourism faculty. Alas, I could not find Kugler's painting but I wanted to keep moving rather than make a focussed study at this initial stage. An Ellipse of Plateaus On Wednesday

An Unknown Town On 20th February 2023 we started the process of deep-mapping from our tourism textbook (1). A team of young professionals in Slovenia began with Step 1, the Library investigation of the town of Brežice. Yes, for readers in Britain and the United States, Brežice fits the category of 'the unknown town'. Where is Brežice? And how can an English speaker even learn to say the name of the town? Our First Workshop for Travel Writers Our first workshop was to write about heritage. Underlying the training of new writers is the need to build confidence in the new writer's own emotional response to cultural artefacts when they encounter them. To that end we looked first at jpegs of paintings from the region around the town. This elicited stories in that past tense in English which does not really have a formal name in grammar, it is the used-to tense. It's rather like the imperfect in French. Listen to this from Kaja:          'The picture reminds me of my