Arrived from Warsaw yesterday, checked into our hotel, and immediately did a press conference and a zillion interviews. Late afternoon, it was time to head to Koper on the Adriatic, where I did my signing. Huge friendly turnout, including nt only Slovenes, but also fans from Croatia, Italy, and even Austria. I signed and signed…

On the way home, we stopped at the most amazing castle, built into the mouth of a huge cave. Definitely have to model some castle in Westeros on this one, it was an eyefull, especially by night. I was given a personal tour, presented with a beautiful illuminated scroll, and asked to pres ny hands into wet cement, ala Mann’s Chinese Theater. And then we had the most amazing medieval Slovenian feast.

Didn’t get back to the hotel until well past midnight, but it was an experience I will long treasure.

Today I do more interviews, and another signing, this one right here in Ljubljana. We’re expecting an even bigger turnout.

It’s all good. But boy, am I tired.

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A long day of travel yesterday, but we’re in Poznan now, on the third stop of my Polish tour. Big booksigning tonight. Tunrout may rival Warsaw.

Ty is almost himself again, though seriously sleep deprived. He slept all the way from Nidzica to Poznan. My own sleep cycle remains screwy. I am wide awake right now, at six in the morning, but I tend to fade badly in late afternoon/ early evening. I will need to break that cycle today, or I’ll sleep through my booksigning.

It felt strange not to watch GAME OF THRONES last night. Reports of the season finale seem good, however, so I am encouraged.

My biggest problem continues to be all the tech that I brought with me to keep me connected with the world. Supposedly everything was fixed and set with my cell phone and its Polish sim… but no, it would still not connect back to Santa Fe. I made a call with the hotel land line instead, but failed to reach Parris. Left a message instead. I HOPE it was on my home machine, but you never know. And my laptop functions well enough for accessing the internet, but cannot find the server that allows it to connect to my home machine and georgerrmartin.com — which means I have NO access to any email, and haven’t had for days. This is stressing me considerably. What with everything going on in my life and career right now, it is really not good for me to be so cut off. I was repeatedly told that getting off AOL would make things better for me, email wise, but so far this seems not to be the case. AOL can at least be accessed from anywhere in the world. So I just hope no one from Random House, HarperCollins, HBO, or any of my other associates is trying to get hold of me for some urgent matter… if you are, alas, nothing is getting through. All I can say, well, Ty is Working On It.

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The convention has been a great time. Though on Friday night Ty and I both drank way too muich vodka, which made our visit to Marbork castle yesterday more of an ordeal than it was meant to be. The castle was very impressive, though I don’t think Ty is going to remember any of it.

Today we take off for Poznan and the next stage of our Polish visit.

Something seems amiss with my computer at home. When I hook up to it, via the internet, it tells me that I haven’t received any emails in three days, which I find extremely unlikely. SO if you have been trying to email me recently, I haven’t gotten more message. Maybe Ty will be able to get it going later today.

Till then, this Live Journal seems my only contact with the outside world. (We did buy a Polish sim for our cellphone, but haven’t been able to get that working either).

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