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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...

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...