Saturday, 25 October 2014

Finding website for inspiration: "Hi, we are lovers"

Something that I would like to point out is that my point is to make a travel guide aimed mainly for teenagers and for people who would be uninterested in visiting Milan. However, my point is not to make a travel guide that only lists places to visit and places to eat at on the other hand I really really want to do something interesting. I want to create an "alternative" guide which has, other than the main places, also smaller and unknown place which are even nicer to visit. For instance, I will never advise in my travel guide to go and eat in one of the restaurants on the main square in front of the cathedral; I will then find little places and "osterie" where you can go and eat REAL Italian food without spending as much.

Something that really helped me in the process of investigating places to visit, as well as restaurants and shops to go to, is my dad experience. Because he has always lived in Milan he is really good at advising some places he used to go to and other monuments which are not as famous as the ones that appear in pictures. However, I could not base my whole travel guide on my dad so I researched some websites/ blogs which I couls use as inspiration. 

The first on that I found is a blog held by three girls who I guess live in Milan. It's really nice and well structured. They have so many things on the website, some of them also in English. But the important thing is that they talk about alternatives to a normal Milanese lifestyle which is exactly what I am aiming for. 

Here is the link to their blog: http://www.wearelovers.it/en/




ANALYSIS OF THE SOURCE: 
Origin: I would say this is a primary source because it is written by three girls who live in Milan and share their own experiences with the world through a blog. I haven't read much from the blog yet but I do think that they don't specifically refer to anything which could make this website a secondary source. 
Purpose: the purpose of this blog is just sharing experiences. That goes really close to what I would like to do with my travel guide. It is created by three girls who live in Milan and attend university there, I am pretty sure they are all Italian so I would say that they know what they talk about. 
Value: the value of the website is just personal. The website was first created as a way to collect personal memories and then it became famous. 
Limitations: one of the main limitations that I can identify is that this blog is definitely biased. That doesn't really affect the outcome badly but sometimes thing are not shown as they actually are. For example, they talked about a nice clothes shop however they did not address that it is a really expensive place and that is something that should be done when advising a place to people. 

BIBLIOGRAPHY:

We Are Lovers. "Hi, We Are Lovers! -." Hi We Are Lovers RSS. E Are Lovers, 2013. Web. 26 Oct. 2014. 


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