Update from Toad Wood
Nov. 17th, 2010 11:57 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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gerisullivan's house in Massachusetts for the night. Tomorrow we head for Toronto and SFContario.
I'm having a blast so far. The trip to Belgium withreverendjim and pingopark was epic. Probably the peak was the visit to the Cantillon Brewery in Brussels where after the tour (which was very cool in itself) we timed things right and ordered the right kind of beer to convince the brewer to bring out a bottle of the 2008 Lou Pepe Kriek to give us a taste and chat for a bit about the cherries they use. Novacon was a terrific chance to meet many friends, and it's hard to pick out a prime detail. Perhaps the highlight was the elitist pub crawl that Mike and Pat Meara led on Saturday, with Christina Lake, Doug Bell, Lennart Uhlin, and Rob Jackson in tow, along with myself. We hit four pubs, including two that claimed to be the oldest pub in England. The Trip to Jerusalem is one -- a maze of rooms and passageways and chimneys dug into the side of a hill.
Back in Croydon, I took a daytrip to the pebble beach of Brighton with the Fishlifters on Tuesday, then a production of Cardenio in the evening -- a reconstruction of a play that was attributed to Shakespeare and Middleton. It's a tender, loving revenge tragedy featuring necrophiliac rape and a pile of corpses -- but a distinct lack of boiled heads, as Claire pointed out.
Well, I need to hit the sack before the road trip tomorrow. Geri has hatched mad plans for an All Worldcon, All the Time party at SFContario. We are trying to figure out how we will fit all the supplies into the car. Tomorrow is another adventure!
gerisullivan's house in Massachusetts for the night. Tomorrow we head for Toronto and SFContario.I'm having a blast so far. The trip to Belgium with
reverendjim and pingopark was epic. Probably the peak was the visit to the Cantillon Brewery in Brussels where after the tour (which was very cool in itself) we timed things right and ordered the right kind of beer to convince the brewer to bring out a bottle of the 2008 Lou Pepe Kriek to give us a taste and chat for a bit about the cherries they use. Novacon was a terrific chance to meet many friends, and it's hard to pick out a prime detail. Perhaps the highlight was the elitist pub crawl that Mike and Pat Meara led on Saturday, with Christina Lake, Doug Bell, Lennart Uhlin, and Rob Jackson in tow, along with myself. We hit four pubs, including two that claimed to be the oldest pub in England. The Trip to Jerusalem is one -- a maze of rooms and passageways and chimneys dug into the side of a hill.Back in Croydon, I took a daytrip to the pebble beach of Brighton with the Fishlifters on Tuesday, then a production of Cardenio in the evening -- a reconstruction of a play that was attributed to Shakespeare and Middleton. It's a tender, loving revenge tragedy featuring necrophiliac rape and a pile of corpses -- but a distinct lack of boiled heads, as Claire pointed out.
Well, I need to hit the sack before the road trip tomorrow. Geri has hatched mad plans for an All Worldcon, All the Time party at SFContario. We are trying to figure out how we will fit all the supplies into the car. Tomorrow is another adventure!
