Day 32 - Grand Hotel, Stockholm Stockholm in mid winter. 4, maybe 4 and a half, hours of sunlight. Its definitely more Stieg Larsson than Roger Spoffin (though oddly Roger wears a dragon amulet - not tattoo, however - early on in Book 2. Theres a little teaser for you.) The Grand Hotel is Stockholms most famous. Its sumptuous and in a beautiful location overlooking the Royal Palace but from an authors perspective the thrill comes from its links with the Nobel Prize (and of course theres one of those for literature). Attendees of the famous ceremony have been guests of the hotel since 1901, when the awards began, so if you know someone whos won the Nobel Prize, odds on theyve stayed here. A little of all that genius has to rub off, I like to think. While it might seem the obvious location in which to write, there is another very serious contender in town. The Rival. Never heard of it? It belongs to one Göran Bror Andersson - aka Benny - who founded ABBA. As an Australian (and a bit of a musician too, I like to think) who grew up in the ABBA era and fell in love with all of them, the thought of sitting in Bennys piano lounge with him pounding out Knowing me, knowing you, or, Fernando, or (dare I even entertain the thought) the heart-wrenching Winner takes it all, almost had me heading to the Rival. However, my Swedish hosts assured me that it would be highly unlikely that Benny would be tinkling the ivories on the day in question (or any day, in fact), so I went instead to the Grand. In any case, sitting in the same room with Benny playing Winner takes it all would have ensured I got no writing done whatsoever. One cant type on a tear-stained iPad. As it was, Rogers adventures progressed very satisfactorily. Todays word count: 1421 Word count to date: 77,044
Posted on: Fri, 02 Jan 2015 23:44:47 +0000
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