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Literary Geographies of Brittany and Paris   Satori in Paris is Jack Kerouac’s account of his fieldwork research in Brittany and Paris.   The book continues to fascinate publishers, so much so that Penguin have recently reissued an edition in their Modern Classics series.   It continues, too, to inspire travel writers, travel bloggers and carnettistes thanks to its autobiographical approach coupled with detailed observation of the phenomenology of the writer’s experiences.   For me, in my search for French, Kerouac’s carnet de voyage delights because it is gently laced with French words like tiny sips of strong black coffee through a Barthesian foam of milky phonemes.   But later on, a neurosis forms in the text and it begins to desire me, as I attend to it and wait for Satori.  Please Follow. You will need to copy our url address first, which is travelwritersonline.blogspot.com

  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, to...

Heading for Brittany We should go to France in this post. You've been waiting for some travel writing for long enough, n'est-ce pas ? Is that not so?  In this trip we are heading for Brittany, by sailing from Plymouth to Roscoff on Brittany Ferries.   Brittany - the Reading & Writing Region.   The tourist development organisation of this huge Région, to use the French spelling, used to promote Bretagne as the place for reading and writing.  Many organisations took this to heart and began publishing projects, specialist libraries and even the écrithèque in Quimper.  L'écrithèque is a made-up word, think of the French for writing, écriture, and add the ending from discothèque.  Brittany has its own ferry service from Plymouth and Portsmouth, Brittany Ferries, which is only a continuation of the migration of Britons to Brittany that began when Brythonic Celts from Devon and Cornwall began to sail over as Roman, and then Anglo-Saxon occupation, sp...