Travel notes are one of the varieties of travel essays - a genre of artistic journalism. This
sketches made during a trip or immediately upon returning home based on fresh impressions. In them, the author talks about everything that attracted his attention during the trip, what struck his imagination, everything new, unusual, interesting, everything that was remembered and broadened his horizons, enriched him with knowledge and ideas about the world around him. Descriptions of nature, terrain, attractions of cities and villages; stories about the people he met along the way, about local customs - everything that seemed worthy of attention makes up the content of travel notes.
Travel notes are always subjective: they reveal the author himself and contain his assessment of what he saw - positive or negative. They are always emotionally charged.
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The leading type of speech in travel notes there is usually a story which reflects the change
the author’s relationship in time and space; the text is dominated by various descriptive fragments that “photograph” the area, natural objects, people, animals; reasoning with justification for the assessment or reasoning-explanation is also possible.
©> 187. Read the text.
RIVER AND LIFE
Autumn is the time to sum up the results of hikes and expeditions. We also had an expedition in August: we crossed the Voronezh River in boats.
“It’s still good...” Savely Vasilyevich, a resident of the village of Kuzminki, said about the river while talking with us.
Our first camp is near Dalniy. We woke up to a milky fog over the water. Two shepherds, one from a boat, the other from the shore, are catching a roach; A heron stands a little to the side in the water, watching over the frogs. Roosters are crowing in the village. An old woman leads a calf to the shore. And above the tents there is an air battle: a falcon waylaid a swallow, but did not shoot it down the first time, repeats the attacks - soars up and falls down...
Up from Dalny, the river seemed to us like a heavenly place, untouched, untouched by man. Dragonflies hung above the water, above the water lilies. Kingfisher fishermen swept over the smooth surface of the reaches like emerald shuttles. The oak forest surrounded the river like a dense and scary wall.
The right high bank is almost everywhere covered with oak trees. This is the same expensive ship timber that Tsar Peter looked at when choosing a place for the first Russian shipyard.
Coming out of the forest, the river becomes thin everywhere. Vast, deep and bottomless reaches, it seems, suddenly turn into a narrow and shallow stream winding through the meadows. The river is good here too. Reeds, sedges, cattails frame the whimsical ribbon of water with their eyelashes. Here you see: the river is inhabited. Heaps of hay on the shore. Broad crossing. Cows. Geese. Boys with fishing rods. On the hillocks there are chains of squat huts.
In these places you especially feel the life-giving need of water on earth. You see how all living things strengthen near the water. The river, winding, gave its grace to houses scattered across the plain, groves, watering holes, goose ponds, wet meadows, and cabbage turning blue in the floodplain. Rejoicing at these twists and turns of the water, we remembered the zealous lovers of “straightening rivers.” Almost always, straightening a river means robbing the land... The left bank, as a rule, is low. Black alder, aspen, willows, bird cherry trees grow here, and pine trees grow on the sandy, dry hills.
Somewhere after Ramoni you feel the swelling of the river. The flow becomes barely noticeable and then disappears completely. The water is covered with duckweed, like in an old lake. Near the village of Chertovitskoye the river leaves its usual banks, the river no longer exists - a flood of water similar to a flood. Seagulls are flying. Tufts of grass indicate shallow waters. The fairway is marked for boats. This place is no longer called a river. This is the “sea” formed by the dam. Whether these “seas” are considered a blessing is a controversial matter. One thing is certain: it was inevitable. The emaciated river could no longer provide water to the huge industrial Voronezh.
Villages on the river... Almost all of them are located on the hillocks of the right bank. The villages here began as guard posts. The border of the Russian state with the “wild steppe” passed along the river. From the spring, “as soon as the young grass could feed the Tatar horses,” raids were expected. Watchmen were on duty on the towers day and night. The neighing of horses, the clatter of hooves, the lights of fires - and the alarm was raised. There was always a saddled horse next to the tower. And if the danger was especially great, the entire “guard line” was quickly notified - the observer fired an arrow with burning tow into a barrel of resin, which also stood on the tower. Now the neighboring post was setting fire to its barrel, followed by another... This is how the fire “telegraph” worked. Bells rang and guns fired. People from the fields and forests hurried to take refuge in the towns -
fortresses, and the army came out in time to meet the raiders.
The tower in Vertyachiye surprisingly resembled an ancient guard post. Made from oak trunks, squat, strong, it stood on the highest point of the hillock. We went up to the tower and asked the man sitting on it if we could climb on.
The land from this tower opened up for many kilometers. The river below, and then the forest, sparkles of lakes, clearings, plain meadows, again a blurry blue forest. And again the river...
(V. Peskov, V. Dezhkin)
Prepare an analysis of the text in the form of a coherent, reasoned statement such as a reasoning. Answer the following questions in it.
Plan for analyzing text of a specific genre
1. What style and genre does the text belong to?
2. Name the topic, the task facing journalists and, in connection with this, the main idea of the statement.
3. Indicate how many microtopics there are in the text. Which?
4. Make a plan for the text.
5. What typical fragments are used in the text?
6. What is the textual function of each fragment?
7. What type of speech, perhaps not clearly expressed, unites all the fragments into a single text?
8. Consider how paragraphs are built (using 1-2 examples). Find in them the beginning (thematic phrase), the middle part (development of the micro-theme), and the ending.
9. Find out how paragraphs are connected to each other: using words indicating time (the question when?), or using words indicating space (where? where?). In other words, find out how the text unfolds: in time or in space.
©>188. 1. Copy part of the text in ex. 187 (from the words Up from the Far... to the words...surrounded the river).
2. Determine the type of speech.
3. Find “given” and “new” in the sentences, underline them with a straight and wavy line, and say how they are expressed.
4. What syntactic means create figurative speech? Indicate comparisons, words with figurative meaning; Tell us about the peculiarities of word order in this fragment.
5. Indicate what part of speech the highlighted words are and explain their spelling.
©> 189. Read the text carefully; draw up its plan and typological diagram.
Prepare a condensed oral history, including only narrative information (where the travelers went and what they did there).
Compare the resulting shortened version of the travel notes with full text and talk about the function of reasoning, descriptive and evaluative passages in this genre. Does an utterance achieve its purpose if it is accomplished only through storytelling?
It all started again in early spring, in April, and maybe even in March. From the Izvestia newspaper we learned that the tourist ship route to the Northern Islands has resumed operation. We really wanted to visit Solovki and Kizhi. We bought tickets and began to wait for August to come.
As we expected, the trip turned out to be very interesting. Only 16 days, but the impressions are as if you’ve been traveling for a year!
Kem... The northernmost point of our route. The polar day was already at its breaking point. The sun set at 10, and in July, they say, even at one in the morning it is as bright as day. It was dry, hot, just like in Crimea. We swam in the White Sea, just like in the Black Sea.
From Kem we went to Belomorsk to see petroglyphs, “demonic footprints” - rock paintings of prehistoric man. We went on foot to the Okhta River, famous for its rapids - more than 100 rapids over 70 kilometers. Spent the night in the forest -
in tents, by the fire. Then we returned to the camp site. We walked along the Kemi River using booms (as they say here). Bona is a road-bridge made of downed rafts across the entire river, the width of which in this place (near the city of Kem) is at least two kilometers. A very strong impression, to the point of dizziness: you walk on rafts, they, of course, have no railings, they are not wide, the logs are wet, slippery, they move under your feet, “breathe,” and under them the water rushes with terrible force.
On the fifth day we went to the Solovetsky Islands. They are associated with the most intense sensations, very different in nature.
Already on the way we were caught by a force six storm. But the river motor ship "Lermontov" - the only connection with the islands - is not suitable for it. We were shaking, swaying, and flooded with water. It was bad...
Then we were treated to casemate service at the Solovetsky camp site - it is located in a former monastery, where in recent years there was a prison. To withstand the dank damp and cold of room 59, I had to pull all my woolen cash on myself at night.
The rest was wonderful: the monastery fortress, the power of its walls and towers, made of large boulders; the austere architecture of cathedrals and services (the refectory alone is worth it!); a two-kilometer dam made of the same boulders, leading directly across the sea to the neighboring island of Bolshaya Muksalma; a system of canals connecting a chain of lakes, and all around there are forests, forests, forests...
Then there was Petrozavodsk and a trip to Kizhi. It’s almost impossible to talk about the Kiyzhi, you have to see them, and not in photographs, but in person, because the strong impression they make on the spot is difficult to understand, it’s difficult to understand who is “to blame” for it more - either ancient Russian architects, or the achingly modest nature of the island.
1. Consider how the paragraphs in the main part of the travel notes are connected to each other; in what perspective the text unfolds - spatial, temporal or spatiotemporal.
2. Find in the text constructions that reveal the meaning of the names of individual local attractions. How is other explanatory information entered?
3. What figurative and expressive means of language are used in the text? Name them.
4. Write out the penultimate paragraph. Give a syntactic description of the sentence. Explain punctuation marks.
190. Continue the text of ex. 189. Try to do what the author of travel notes considers almost impossible - tell about Kizhi from photographs.
Look at the colored inserts in the textbook and tell us about the wooden architecture of Russia: describe the cathedrals, a residential building, a mill, and the unpretentious nature of our reserved North.
191. Maybe you also went somewhere this summer or during the holidays? If you still have photographs, look at them; remember what particularly struck or interested you during the trip, what new things you learned, what you may have seen for the first time.
Write an essay in the genre of travel writing. Think about the perspective in which you will unfold the text; what syntactic structures, words and expressions will help you connect paragraphs; what typical fragments will you include in the narrative framework of the text; what figurative and emotional-evaluative means of language do you use in your essay.
You will need
- camera or video camera;
- notepad and pencil;
- laptop or tablet;
- Dictaphone.
Instructions
When planning your next trip, try to prepare in advance for the fact that you will keep a travel diary. To get started, seek professional help. Surely, you have at least once watched the programs “Around the World”, “Bad Notes” or turned on the “Travel-TV” channel. Find any of the stories from these cycles in the program guide or on the Internet. See them from the point of view of a traveler and journalist. Pay attention to the emphasis of the plot. Sketch out a rough plan for taking travel notes in a notebook or any digital device convenient for you.
First, mark the date, time and place from which you begin your travel notes. By the way, you can start keeping your travel notes immediately after you leave home and go to the airport or train station. Secondly, every morning next day start with new photographs and notes on them, making sure to record their date. Accompany your comments with photographs. There can be quite a lot of them; later you will have to carefully select the most interesting ones for your travel notes.
Be sure to take pictures of every interesting object. This could be a local market with an abundance of seafood or tropical fruits, festive processions or simply scenes from life, imbued with the flavor inherent in a given place. If you do not have the opportunity to immediately write down comments on the footage in a notebook, use the voice recorder that you probably have in your mobile phone. This will help you later recreate your impressions of what you saw and describe them in travel notes.
Don’t forget a very important point: record every vivid impression of what you see not only in a photo or video, but also in your comments to it. The sooner you describe your feelings, the more interesting and vivid your travel notes will be. Do not overload your notes with detailed historical information received from a guide or on the Internet; those who want to find out the details will do this themselves. Also, you shouldn’t put mean and impersonal captions like “local market”, “view of the mountain”, etc. under the photos. Try to make the description interesting for the readers of your notes.
Your journey is over. It's time to organize all the material for notes in chronological order. Collect all sources for notes together: record texts from a voice recorder, add notes from other sources, download photos. In any program convenient for you that works with texts and images, write your notes by inserting photographs and captions to them. You can also give each photo an original name, use your imagination and sense of humor. Be sure to re-read the notes and give them to your loved ones to read. Liked? Feel free to post your travel notes on your page, blog or any website where tourists share their travel impressions.
For a week now we have been living in New Pomorie, a district of the old town of Bulgaria rebuilt in a modernist manner. Everything a tourist needs is at hand - the sea, hotels and simple taverns. But spend more than five days and six nights here and you will begin to pace around your apartment like a tiger in a cage. The city we had studied up and down could no longer satisfy our growing boredom and desperate thirst for change. The question of the “cultural” component of our vacation became acute.
The Bulgarian villages and bird farm described in the booklet of the only local travel agency were depressing just by their name. I wanted something more, worthwhile.
Soon, from “local” compatriots, we learned about the Rila Monastery, the only holy monastery in Bulgaria that provides overnight accommodation for its visitors. Tourists who stayed within the walls of the shrine for only one night managed to survive either an existential crisis or providence. Many talked about John of Rila, who appeared to them in a dream, the first hermit monk, whose disciples built the monastery. Then we were not yet ready to experience everything that the pioneers described to us, but we certainly could not imagine a five-hour trip to Sofia - a test not for mountain tourists exhausted by the heat and despondency.
The monastery is located in the valley of the Rila River, on the western slope of the Rila mountain range. The shrine is surrounded on all sides by centuries-old trees and riverbeds. mountain rivers. The last seventeen kilometers of the path stretched in a narrow serpentine from the foot to the top of the mountain. The complex of structures, which seemed immense from below, at an altitude of one thousand one hundred and forty-seven kilometers above the sea, impressed with its truly grandiose scale. The monastery not only towered above the surrounding slopes, but also seemed to be carved out of rock. We took our first breath of the southern mountain air: cool and sweet, and set off along the cozy narrow paths.
The Rila Monastery has been the cultural center of Bulgaria for almost its entire existence. It was here that the culture of the Bulgarian people found refuge, fleeing the oppression of the Turkish yoke: children were taught in the monastery Bulgarian language, preserved local customs and legends. But the nature and architecture of this place speak a different language, clear and understandable to everyone to whom they open their doors.
Time flows in the monastery as quickly as the Rila water flies from the mountain rapids. The heavy, lead-colored sky sank like a dome over the shrine. The mystical night, permeated with silence, gradually began to be filled with the noise of mountain rivers and the sounds of the peaceful life of the monastery. How often do you have the opportunity to spend the night in a mountain cell and awaken from the rays of the sun beating through the window?
I didn’t want to leave the quiet, peaceful place. Moving away from the monastery, we watched the sightseeing buses and tourists swarming around in them. They had yet to experience the sublime satisfaction that this place gives. In the meantime, they can jostle in queues, argue about the cost of tickets and discuss the way back home.
St. Sophia Cathedral in Polotsk. Photo from the Internet, may its author forgive me!
I stood with a group of tourists on a green hill and looked at the tall snow-white Cathedral, it seems, St. Sophia. It was in Polotsk, I was 13-14 years old and this was my first independent trip without my parents. I remember that I was holding a small notebook in my hands, where I tried to write down the names of attractions. I didn’t have any other gadgets then, in the late 80s. And the desire to at least somehow document the trip has already arisen.
It was later, years later, that I learned that there is a genre of travel writing in travel journalism, when a traveler writes down his observations, the most exciting moments of the trip and his impressions of it. Especially impressions that fade over time, like old printed photographs. Of course, in our digital age it is easier to photograph than . But it is still important to note some details in the notebook.
These are the names settlements, cities, names of people we met and talked to. By the way, it is important to record as accurately as possible. Take the time to write down what the weather was like and what nuances it brought to the trip. The names of streets, cathedrals and monuments, and most importantly - the state of mind that they evoked, because even cities have history, not just history.
I admit, I have never been to the sea, in foreign countries and in the mountains (except that I saw the Ural Mountains from the window of a train and car). For now I travel most often around Russia. It's a pity that I didn't always take notes. But even now I can remember some details. In the village of Mikhailovskoye I was surprised by the tall, powerful pines (or spruces?) and shady alleys with bridges, and in the Svyatogorsk Monastery, where Pushkin was brought to be buried, by narrow dark corridors and the poet’s death mask, similar to a theatrical one.
Minsk is remembered for its neat station square and bright, uncrowded metro. In the mysterious town of Nesvizh, for the first time I saw a medieval castle with guardhouses, a courtyard, parks, earthen ramparts and deep ditches. In Yekaterinburg, I visited the scene of death royal family at a time when, instead of the Church on the Blood, there was a cross with a photograph of the royal family. And nearby you could see the hills from the blown up Ipatiev House...
Now I live in Kazan, but once I lived in Zelenodolsk and. I visited Bolgar, Urzhum, Malmyzh, Nolinsk... Even in the smallest provincial towns there are so many interesting and unique things that you won’t see anywhere else. In Nolinsk, for example, the ensemble of St. Nicholas Cathedral amazes with its grandeur and... abandonment. The tall white walls of the cathedral are being destroyed by time, and perhaps by people, although it is an architectural monument. I saw it and remembered it...
And one day we went to the Urals, to the city of Serov by car. My grandparents and my mother’s parents lived there. It’s a long way from the Kirov region, it took us a day to travel. But it was an unforgettable road trip! Through the sea-like Votkinsk reservoir, the cozy city of Tchaikovsky, in flower beds, the foggy bridge near Kachkanar... But a lot was forgotten, because I didn’t write it down interesting names and the impressions they made.
Here we stand in Europe. And Asia is already around the corner! I had a camera with me (a point-and-shoot camera with film), so they photographed some things, for example, the border sign between Europe and Asia, which is marked in this place by a white elegant pillar. On it you can see completely inelegant, but eternal inscriptions: Vasya was here... We were there too! Here we are showing off in a photo, an old one, still in print, and slightly blurry.
By the way, there are a great many such pillars throughout the entire Ural Mountains (which is more than 3000 kilometers) and they are all of different types. Everyone has their own story. Unfortunately, I forgot (because I didn’t write it down!) in which place in the Ural Mountains the pillar near which we were photographed is located. But maybe some of the readers will recognize this place?
And from the notes you can create a travelogue that will please the author and benefit other people. They may never visit there, but thanks to the author's travel notes they will learn a lot of interesting things.
Summer is vacation time. No not like this. Summer is the time to travel. Finally, you can see what is there, beyond the horizon. Minimum clothes, maximum impressions. And I really want this not to end.
Summer will end. There will be memories that will warm you up on long winter evenings and provide a topic for conversation with friends. And that's what I thought. Looking at photographs is one thing. Human memory is not perfect. Very quickly you will forget that mood, those people, good and bad, you met along the way. We need to do something about this. Do not spill the memories of a unique summer, save it for yourself, for your children, for your loved ones. The only way out is to write travel notes.
How to do it? It’s one thing to say “I’ll write.” It's another thing to force yourself to sit down and write. When you are about to write, there are so many thoughts. If you sit down, a universal emptiness envelops the consciousness, subconscious and other parts of the brain. We will act according to plan.
First plan: technical side.[ more]
1. Write down everything that happened at the same time every day. For example, at 21.00. It failed, then in the morning at 9.00. This will become a habit and it will become easier to sit yourself down at the table.
2. Prepare accessories and workplace so that the search for all this does not interrupt the creative process.
3. It's good to have a laptop. If not, you need a notebook. Yes, thicker. The place where you write should also be organized. You can add plan items.
4. Let's not forget the camera!
Second plan: direct travel writing. Here we act according to this plan. We start with the designation of date, time, place. Next, we begin to describe the place we are in, our fellow travelers, and events.
Describing the place is probably the easiest way. What I see is what I write. Let’s not forget the most important thing: to evaluate what we see, to describe our mood while admiring the area and the statements of others, if any.
It's a little more difficult with people. A person has not only an external, but also an internal. Everything is clear from the outside: name, approximate, by eye, age, Family status(if possible), what he does, appearance, demeanor, gestures, smile, features. The inner can be expressed by your conversations with him. Here you can not reproduce exactly what was said down to every word, but simply convey the essence of the conversation in a few words that reflect the views of the interlocutor. Again, let’s not forget the main thing: evaluate a person, you can listen to what others have to say about him, but we won’t stoop to discussing behind his back.
Describing the events of our journey, we will use works of art, or rather their plot structure. After all, how do writers write? According to plan. And in this regard there are only 4 points.
1. The beginning. We answer the question: how did the event begin?
2. Development of action. You directly describe what actions took place, who did what, said, thought.
3. Climax. This is the most intense moment of action, when everything is on the verge of life and death, pros and cons, good and evil.
4. Denouement. How did the event end? What lesson did you learn from it? How has it changed your life and those around you?
While traveling, we can become not only the heroes of some incident, but also its observers and witnesses. This is also a good idea to write down. After all, a wise person learns from the mistakes of others.
Don't forget that people love to read memoirs in the first place famous people(and now simple ones), secondly, notes from travelers. Who knows, maybe you will write notes about your journey not only for yourself? Unleash your talents!
