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Reading Feast and Roscoff

  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...

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