The bells, the bells!

[skyring]

There must be something about me and old cathedrals. In London, my hostel is a stone's throw from St Pauls. In Istanbul, Ayasofya, the ancient Byzantine cathedral (later a mosque) was just a block away from my seedy hotel in Sultanahmet (and the huge Blue Mosque not much further).

And now I've found this incredible hotel in the shadow of Notre Dame in Paris. Right slap bang in the middle of Paris. In the middle of the Seine. Shakespeare's bookshop is just across the river in one direction, and the Boulevarde St Michel starts at our doorstep.

The hotel is apparently one of Paris's best secrets. It's in an attic of the Hotel Dieu, the old Paris hospital, and it consists of 14 small but quiet and clean rooms. No windows, just skylights.

And what a location! We'll be able to walk everywhere.

The hotel just wrote back and confirmed availablity, so I am over the moon.

Comments

[skyring.livejournal.com]

I haven't booked London yet. I'm awaiting the official announcements and registration. I'm hoping it's reasonably priced, whatever they come up with.

Then again, there's always the Earls Court YHA.

[lytteltonwitch.livejournal.com]

I am fustrated with the convention delays with their website. They want us to pay earlybird by December but I don't know who to send the money to or what it covers exactly.

[skyring.livejournal.com]

There's a website?

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[awaywithfairy1.livejournal.com]

There's a website now. It's just been announced over at the Bookcrossing Forum.

http://www.bcconvention2008.org/