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be our guest: the st ermin's hotel

            We had moved to the St Ermin's in Westminster after the Zeta Psi board meetings were over, to be closer to central London, where the action happens, and to enjoy more splendid accommodations.  I can't praise them highly enough.  I had already booked us in a junior suite for extra space since we'd be there for a week and a half, which had a glorious canopy bed and capacious sitting room: but a a rather diminutive bathroom.  When one of Lonnie's more expensive products was jostled off the inadequate shelving and expoded in a shower of glass and goop, I inquired about moving a room with a larger toilet, and they obliged by moving us to the largest suite on the floor.  It was, to put it mildly, very pleasant.

The barstaff at the Caxton Bar downstairs was also highly complaisant.  Caxton's claim to fame is that the Cambridge Five--the Communist spies who infiltrated MI6 during the Cold War--used it to pass secrets, and during World War II, elements of the intelligence directorates operated out of the hotel.  Over a week, they gleaned that we were in town for Lonnie's birthday, and when we returned on said birthday, we found a little spread of cake and soda laid out on our table, with a card wishing a happy birthday.  They had even taken note that Lonnie had asked for ginger ale at the bar the night before and selected that for his treat. Lonnie looked somewhere between bemused and amused.

Taken in: UK / England / Westminster / Westminster (show map)

Taken on: February 11, 2024

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