Travel writing know-how
It’s worth considering a trip based on what to do as well as where to go, says Patrick Forsyth
Planning with purpose
Where shall we go? This is a common enough question when people are thinking of holidays. The writing fraternity may well couple it with another question: where shall I write about? But this may not be the only possible starting point.
Of course, people go on holiday for all sorts of reasons, including wanting to see a particular place, or sometimes not to – how many people go on holiday and see nothing of the place they visit, spending all the time by the pool or on the beach, or inside a nightclub? But some go not so much to visit a particular place, but to do a particular thing. This may be at various stages of involvement with an activity: to explore or start it, to practice or just to experience a oneoff event or cross some activity off their bucket list.