Most people have heard of Key West even if they haven't been there. The name sounds so romantic that if you haven't been there, or you went there a long time ago, you want to go there and you want to back.
Problems
1 What is it and Where is it?
2 Who goes there?
3 How do you get there?
4 a) Why should I care?
b) Why do other people care?
c) Why do they - do they - care more about a US disaster?
5 If the island and I survive another year, what should I see if I ever make a trip there?
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2 Hemingway fans.
Travellers and Trips
People are taken there on cruise ships. (Americans and tourists.)
Florida Fun
Sports and sea lovers, people who want to escape from the big cities.
City and Country, Cultures
Mismatched culture couples. He wants to see the sea, whilst I want to visit museums. Offer him the sea and water and I get to see the Hemingway Museum (if I check opening hours).
Sea and See
Real America seekers - as the songs say: 'America the beautiful' 'from sea to shining sea'.
News and Views
News reporters.
Problems
1 What is it and Where is it?
2 Who goes there?
3 How do you get there?
4 a) Why should I care?
b) Why do other people care?
c) Why do they - do they - care more about a US disaster?
5 If the island and I survive another year, what should I see if I ever make a trip there?
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| Nickname(s): "The Conch Republic", "Southernmost City in the Continental United States" | |
| Motto: One Human Family |
Travellers and Trips
People are taken there on cruise ships. (Americans and tourists.)
People driving down the east coast who want to go to the far end and then drive back.
(Meticulous route-planning people like my British husband who like to do the whole country end to end, north to south, east to west, or circular, even if they don't have time to stop where I want.)
Florida Fun
Sports and sea lovers, people who want to escape from the big cities.
Last on list in Florida: after you have taken the kids to Disney, and done art deco Miami, and seen granny in Miami, now what?
City and Country, Cultures
Mismatched culture couples. He wants to see the sea, whilst I want to visit museums. Offer him the sea and water and I get to see the Hemingway Museum (if I check opening hours).
Sea and See
Real America seekers - as the songs say: 'America the beautiful' 'from sea to shining sea'.
Hurricane watchers.
Suicidal selfie-takers.
News and Views
News reporters.
Rescue workers seeking information for planning.
Photographers seeking then and now and before and after pictures.
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Fly.
Drive.
By sea.
Fly.
Drive.
By sea.
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a) I write a travel blog and I have friends in the travel trade. I just read that one couple were on a 'honeymoon from hell' in a hurricane. I need to know where not to go for my own benefit as I travel a lot.
A disaster in one area causes ripples around the world. In 9/11 when flights could not enter or leave America, my flight from Singapore to South Africa was delayed all day. First extra security checks. Then a bomb scare from a scared passenger. Then crews and planes not available. Then the few flights that were still going were cancelled because they were half full whilst others were over-full with people from other cancelled flights.
The same was happening to upset conferences and hotels as far away as South Africa. Our hotel had empty rooms. Speakers from the USA did not reach the conference. The driver spent several hours at the airport waiting to meet our delayed flight.
As a travel writer, like other journalists, I am watching for news stories such as museum closed, museum re-opened, no flights, new flights.
4 b) People you hardly knew, whose jobs you didn't know, were involved in 9/11. In Singapore, a friend's son doing national service, and another on reserve, were called up by the Singapore army.
People cancelled social events because they were volunteers on call. Others were staying at home by the phone because with cancelled flights their boat might be needed, for commercial reasons or humanitarian reasons.
4 c)
Many British people have second homes in Florida. They go on holiday to hot places in cold winter and get persuaded to buy and then holiday regularly in the USA or lend their home to family or let it out.
Americans speak English so it's easy for the elderly Brits who are not good at languages.
Brits, Americans and Canadians go to Florida for winter warmth.
Disney is a big attraction, visited, also known by people who have not yet been.
English language publications have a high American readership. My blogs get a high American readership, whether or not I write about America. I sometimes write about the Middle East, the Far East, but I still get far more readers in the US so I tend to write about what will interest my readers.
I would expect a newspaper written in India or Bangladesh or Pakistan in Hindi or Urdu or Arabic would have a higher readership in those areas. A newspaper published in Glasgow gets more Scottish readers and publishes more news about Scotland.
News stories also depend on sources. If you have lots of people taking selfies, with their long battery life phones, you have more vox pop available. If you have satellite pictures, and cameras recording on every building, you have more aerial views. If you have more people who speak English living in a place, you get more stories which the newspapers and social media will pass to other English speakers.
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a) I write a travel blog and I have friends in the travel trade. I just read that one couple were on a 'honeymoon from hell' in a hurricane. I need to know where not to go for my own benefit as I travel a lot.
A disaster in one area causes ripples around the world. In 9/11 when flights could not enter or leave America, my flight from Singapore to South Africa was delayed all day. First extra security checks. Then a bomb scare from a scared passenger. Then crews and planes not available. Then the few flights that were still going were cancelled because they were half full whilst others were over-full with people from other cancelled flights.
The same was happening to upset conferences and hotels as far away as South Africa. Our hotel had empty rooms. Speakers from the USA did not reach the conference. The driver spent several hours at the airport waiting to meet our delayed flight.
As a travel writer, like other journalists, I am watching for news stories such as museum closed, museum re-opened, no flights, new flights.
4 b) People you hardly knew, whose jobs you didn't know, were involved in 9/11. In Singapore, a friend's son doing national service, and another on reserve, were called up by the Singapore army.
People cancelled social events because they were volunteers on call. Others were staying at home by the phone because with cancelled flights their boat might be needed, for commercial reasons or humanitarian reasons.
4 c)
Many British people have second homes in Florida. They go on holiday to hot places in cold winter and get persuaded to buy and then holiday regularly in the USA or lend their home to family or let it out.
Americans speak English so it's easy for the elderly Brits who are not good at languages.
Brits, Americans and Canadians go to Florida for winter warmth.
Disney is a big attraction, visited, also known by people who have not yet been.
English language publications have a high American readership. My blogs get a high American readership, whether or not I write about America. I sometimes write about the Middle East, the Far East, but I still get far more readers in the US so I tend to write about what will interest my readers.
I would expect a newspaper written in India or Bangladesh or Pakistan in Hindi or Urdu or Arabic would have a higher readership in those areas. A newspaper published in Glasgow gets more Scottish readers and publishes more news about Scotland.
News stories also depend on sources. If you have lots of people taking selfies, with their long battery life phones, you have more vox pop available. If you have satellite pictures, and cameras recording on every building, you have more aerial views. If you have more people who speak English living in a place, you get more stories which the newspapers and social media will pass to other English speakers.
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Author
Angela Lansbury, travel writer and photographer, author and speaker.
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