Worldcon Trip Day 22: Glasgow to Chester
Aug. 14th, 2024 08:39 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
kevin_standleeThis morning, I took Lisa to Glasgow Queen Street station by taxi for her and her friend Chris to start their two-month European rail holiday. We were supposed to collect Chris at his hotel, which, as far as we knew, was the Argyll Hotel, and then go on to Queen Street. However, when the cabbie took us to the Argyll Hotel Glasgow, neither Chris nor his roommates were there, and the hotel said they had no record of them. We gave up and continued on to Queen Street, hoping that Chris would find his way to us. While we waited, we validated Lisa and Chris' Eurail passes (fortunately, the UK is still part of Eurail). Chris arrived a little while later. We determined that there are two different hotels with nearly the same name! Besided that Argyll Hotel Glasgow, there is the Glasgow Argyle Hotel, BW Signature Collection. None of us knew that there were such similarly-named hotels. In any event, they only were running one train behind their original schedules (the Glasgow-Edinburgh shuttles run half-hourly). I watched their train depart, then walked over to Glasgow Central and got a train to Exhibition Centre, making my final trek through the pink tunnel from the train station to SEC campus. After showering, I proceeded to pack. Anything Lisa left with me has to go back with me, including stuff she brought only for Worldcon and doesn't need in Munich (where they will be based) or during their travels.
Today, Lisa and Chris were off to York, where they planned to visit the National Railway Museum. Tomorrow, they plan to travel from York to Portsmouth and visit the historic ships there before taking a ferry to France, passing through Paris, and going on to Munich, from which they will base themselves for the next couple of months. More about this later.
As you can read, I have internet connectivity back for now. I complained at check-out at the Crowne Plaza about it. They told me that they are in the process of starting upgrades, but they admitted that it's an issue. Not they will do anything about it, but I told them that besides wi-fi, they should wire the place with Ethernet, so one doesn't lose their connection when someone walks by their hotel room or something liek that.
Those of you who saw me at Worldcon may have noticed that I had a Dealer ribbon. I was a minion to Cheryl Morgan and Wizard's Tower Press. Due to my commitments to the Business meeting, this ways mainly limited to moving boxes of book into the dealers' room at the start of the con and moving the (fortunately considerably fewer) boxes out at the end. She's taking care of me post-con, taking me to see Welsh trains and so forth. It's too far to drive from Glasgow to her place in Wales in one day, especially after a week of Worldcon. I contributed a night at a Holiday Inn along the way, for which I could redeem points, which is good because I couldn't use them at the Crowne Plaza.
The night on points doesn't include breakfast. I'm happy enough with that. It means that I can sleep in tomorrow a little bit rather than being pressured to be up early for the included breakfast. There's a Starbucks next door and we can get breakfast there.
It was a clear, sunny day, great for traveling, but not so good if like me you sunburn easily. I didn't really expect it to be an issue in these parts.
I'm grateful Cheryl sold enough books that I and my luggage could fit into her car and I did not have to ride on the roof.
Today, Lisa and Chris were off to York, where they planned to visit the National Railway Museum. Tomorrow, they plan to travel from York to Portsmouth and visit the historic ships there before taking a ferry to France, passing through Paris, and going on to Munich, from which they will base themselves for the next couple of months. More about this later.
As you can read, I have internet connectivity back for now. I complained at check-out at the Crowne Plaza about it. They told me that they are in the process of starting upgrades, but they admitted that it's an issue. Not they will do anything about it, but I told them that besides wi-fi, they should wire the place with Ethernet, so one doesn't lose their connection when someone walks by their hotel room or something liek that.
Those of you who saw me at Worldcon may have noticed that I had a Dealer ribbon. I was a minion to Cheryl Morgan and Wizard's Tower Press. Due to my commitments to the Business meeting, this ways mainly limited to moving boxes of book into the dealers' room at the start of the con and moving the (fortunately considerably fewer) boxes out at the end. She's taking care of me post-con, taking me to see Welsh trains and so forth. It's too far to drive from Glasgow to her place in Wales in one day, especially after a week of Worldcon. I contributed a night at a Holiday Inn along the way, for which I could redeem points, which is good because I couldn't use them at the Crowne Plaza.
The night on points doesn't include breakfast. I'm happy enough with that. It means that I can sleep in tomorrow a little bit rather than being pressured to be up early for the included breakfast. There's a Starbucks next door and we can get breakfast there.
It was a clear, sunny day, great for traveling, but not so good if like me you sunburn easily. I didn't really expect it to be an issue in these parts.
I'm grateful Cheryl sold enough books that I and my luggage could fit into her car and I did not have to ride on the roof.
