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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...

Patrick Modiano’s novel,  Dora Bruder   Immobilised indoors has given me time to indulge in Literary E-Tourism.  I started reading Patrick Modiano’s novel from April 1997, Dora Bruder this morning and immediately his opening lines provide sufficient detail to see if he is using real facts and places. He opens with a brief newspaper item from 31 st December 1941; it was the period when Marshal Pétain was Chief of State in France. The first literary tourism question then is, can a copy of that evening newspaper, Paris-soir be found? I know that Gallica, which gives on-line access to scanned documents from the French National Library, the {BnF, will probably hold the edition mentioned in the novel. Actually, it was with genuine surprise and something of that same thrill of discovery you feel when you arrive at the exact spot mentioned in a novel that I found this: There is the missing persons message for Dora Bruder on page 3 as Modiano’s novel says!  Take a look at...