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In Bristol with Diana Wynne Jones: Day 1
Aug. 10th, 2019 08:58 pmWhere did the DWJ Conference experience begin? With a plunge into re-reading the books? Or, as I suggested in my previous post, with getting lost first on the way to the hotel, then within the hotel? At breakfast, when I spotted a fellow guest carrying a copy of Charmed Life, and she joined me and explained that she had won it in a raffle at a convention (possibly London WorldCon), and showed me the tiny slip of paper inscribed: "I belong to Chrestomanci Castle"?
Technically, it didn't start until yesterday afternoon. I spent the morning ambling around a very small part of the city, but I'll save that for a picture-heavy post. Just one tourist view of the waterfront to be going on with:
( And now, the real point of my visit: )
I could, at this point, have found myself a group of dinner companions, but I was suffering from overload. I came back to the hotel, checked e-mail, fell asleep for a bit, went out in search of a quiet dinner, didn't actually get lost but did discover that the road I thought I was taking didn't go where I expected it to, ended up in the Shore Café Bar which may or may not be part of this hotel - it seems to have been disowned, and was very quiet, which is what I was looking for. So that was fine.
Technically, it didn't start until yesterday afternoon. I spent the morning ambling around a very small part of the city, but I'll save that for a picture-heavy post. Just one tourist view of the waterfront to be going on with:
( And now, the real point of my visit: )
I could, at this point, have found myself a group of dinner companions, but I was suffering from overload. I came back to the hotel, checked e-mail, fell asleep for a bit, went out in search of a quiet dinner, didn't actually get lost but did discover that the road I thought I was taking didn't go where I expected it to, ended up in the Shore Café Bar which may or may not be part of this hotel - it seems to have been disowned, and was very quiet, which is what I was looking for. So that was fine.
