At World Words, we always like to try new things. So we have taken a big leap to create our first Buzzfeed-style post.
The blog combines GIFs, videos and images (as well as text) to highlight Valentine’s Day traditions around the world.
We already have other multimedia blogs in the pipeline, but as this was our first we thought it was worth a mention…
Happy New Year from everybody at World Words!
We received an unexpected Christmas present in late 2013, as we learnt that two articles we had written more than a year earlier (and had all but forgotten about) had been published in Brummell Magazine. They were…
PRAGUE’S TV TOWER AIRS LUXURY MAKEOVER
RUSSIAN LIMOS BACK ON PRODUCTION LINE
Both are now available on the website for your perusal – simply click the article titles above – and we hope there’ll be many more to come in 2014.
Until then…
We have some exciting news, and it has been a long time coming! Our city vacation guide for Christchurch in New Zealand, which was written back in July, has finally been published on the Expedia website. You can read the overview by clicking on this here link, or check out one of the POIs, Lyttelton Harbour, here.
In fact, Christchurch is just the latest of several city vacation guides we have created for Expedia. We’ve previously written about city destinations in more than a dozen countries right around the world, including Albuquerque (USA), Friedrichshafen (Germany), Hua Hin (Thailand), Rarotonga (The Cook Islands), Edmonton (Canada), and Hong Kong.
You’ll find a selection of our completed guides in Projects. Or click here to see all Expedia’s guides in one place.
World Words editor Joseph Reaney was recently interviewed by one of our clients, Cities Talking, outlining all the skills, tips and tricks required to compose great audio travel guides that entertain and inform the listener. Here was one of the questions…
Q. HOW DO YOU TACKLE A BRIEF TO WRITE A CITIES TALKING TOUR?
A. Cities Talking is a wonderful client. They provide a clear brief about the tour they wish to be written and have in-house researchers who send over a long document outlining each and every attraction en route. We’ll then scour these notes, pick out the interesting information and use this to create an entertaining and informative audio script. We also supplement this research with some of our own. In particular, we try to find interesting characters and dig into their personalities.
You can read the interview in full of the Cities Talking website. You will find some of the audio city guides we have written for this client, including on the beautiful European cities Amsterdam, Budapest and Prague, in our portfolio.
