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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 ...

Hand-drawn Maps In our tourism research project on Brežice, Slovenia we reached the stage of hand-drawing route maps on which to create a hexis for later literary travel writing by the end of March 2023. We were still in the first phase of the process, which in our tourism textbook for travel writers and place-branding we call 'Step 1. Deep-mapping', Table 5.7 page 96.  The processual approach, where we work via dialogue journaling, began to yield up two emerging findings. One, which I will expand fully here, is the unknown town syndrome, and the other is linked to Paul Rabinow's (2007) Reflections on Fieldwork in Morocco . It is the point where Rabinow develops Paul Ricœur's idea that meaning is discovered in what follows an event.   Even though I’ve been thinking about Brežice for a long time now, it is still unknown to me, and to the readers of this blog. How do the tourist office there tell English-speaking people from Britain or the US that their town of just 6,800...