Worldcon: Day 1

[deirdre]

We arrived in London on Wednesday afternoon, and our shared ride to the Aloft hotel took 2-1/2 hours due to road closures in central London for an event.

It’s our first stay at an Aloft hotel, which is trendy and hipsterish without being too much so. The convention rate makes it affordable for a London hotel.

We got to dinner late on Wednesday after napping for several hours, and I slept very well that night.

Thursday, I only went to one panel: The Joy of Sex, which featured Artist Guest of Honor Chris Foss, one of the original illustrators of the book The Joy of Sex. The panel also included Meg Barker, who is currently researching sex manuals, and Bethan Jones a sexualities researcher.

Chris was a complete hoot.

I missed two koffeeklatsches. One I was on the alternate list for, and the other was after the panel, and I was simply too tired by that point. Pity, as I would really have loved to have gone.

Apart from that, I did a fair amount of talking to people before needing to bail for a nap in the late afternoon.

One of Rick’s relatives who lives in London came to dinner with us, and it was great to see him again.

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