Since the Undercover tourist initiative, and from the Tourist Information lady's suggestion I have become very interested in the Stoke-on-Trent garden festival. I have begun to purchase memorabilia from the year long event, and have also begun some excavations into the minds of people that went, or were around at the time.I will be visiting the Festival Park with my camera soon (as soon as there is a dry and bright day) in order to take some pictures of the remanats from the Festival. I visitied the area on Saturday and found a large plaque. I hope to also develop a series of walks and become Stoke-on-Trent's official tour guide; one will be the Festival Garden's tour, one will be the City Centre Regeneration tour and I am still not sure what to make the last tour (maybe a pot bank tour or something??) I will be devleoping maps and tour packs for participants, and already have a group of 5 from Poland sugned up for a tour in February.
As well as this I have been talking to Katie Shipley about mediascapes: and the possibility of a multi-media tour, that would not require me to be there when people take the tour (but this sounds a bit sci-fi at the moment - I will look into it further...)
