Travel writing session by Mark Baker. Information related to this presentation can be found here: https://markbakerprague.com/tbex/

2. Practical Tips for Bringing
Destinations to Life
By Mark Baker
www.markbakerprague.com

3. 1. Buy a Guidebook and Use It

4. “I had a look at the Light and Life
Exhibition ... It was quite short and
not massively interesting, nothing to
shout about, but it only cost £2 so I
couldn’t complain.”

5. “I had a look online for cheap places
to eat and came across Sad Man’s
Tongue Bistro & Bar ... And I was able
to get a table straight away.”

6. 2. Embrace Your Inner “Tourist”

8. 3. Know What You’re Talking About

9. “Straight away I was struck by the
architecture in Prague – lots of the
buildings are really grand in an old-
fashioned kind of way, as you’d
expect from somewhere in this
region.”

10. 4. Be an Obsessive Note-Taker …

11. “Between the Woods & the Water”
“The fin-de-siècle stucco might have come
straight out of an icing gun; there were
terracotta balustrades, egg-shaped cupolas
and glimpses through glass double-doors
of hydrangeas banked up ornate staircases
… an echo of the Austro-Hungarian Empire
at its farthest edge.”

12. 5. … And Don’t Forget to Keep a Diary

13. “There was blood … everywhere and
plenty of violence to witness. I saw
students – many of whom looked a
lot like me – get their heads clubbed
in by miners and police.”
– My Weekend with the Miners

14. 6. Be Smart About Photos

17. 7. Find ‘Yourself’ in the Destination

20. Questions?