The study describes an experiment in which four subjects carried out two tasks, a FL writing task and a translation task into FL; in both cases travel brochures for Spanish speakers. The TAP data on the two tasks were first analysed separately (e.g. global planning, problem identification and solutions, revisions, dictionary use, and cultural transfer), then the writing processes were compared with the translation processes (structure of plans, strategies, etc.). One of the findings is that neither process proceeds in a linear fashion; both are characterised by recursiveness.