<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div class="">Dana Blankenhorn <<a href="mailto:danablankenhorn@gmail.com" class="">danablankenhorn@gmail.com</a>> wrote:</div><div class=""><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"></div><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Much to my surprise, I've been accepted to report on the Heidelberg Laureate Forum in September, all expenses paid.</div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Hooray! Do you know where you'll place the story?</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Anyone else going?</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Me, as you know.</div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div dir="ltr" class=""><div class="">Any thoughts on where to stay, how to get there, and what to wear while covering it?</div></div></blockquote><div class=""><br class=""></div>If they offered you housing, it'll probably be at Hip Hotel (<a href="http://www.hiphotel.directotels.com/" class="">http://www.hiphotel.directotels.com/</a>), which is in the middle of the tourist area and almost directly across the street from the venue -- super convenient and very pleasant. (Each room has a different regional theme: I've stayed in the Marrakech and Vienna rooms.) That's where journalists have been for the last two years.<div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">Heidelberg-Altstadt is the closest train station, but it's a mile over cobblestones. Heidelberg Hauptbahnhof + bus to Universitätsplatz is better. You'll probably fly in and out of Frankfurt.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">The weather is similar to the U.S. East Coast's. It'll probably be comfortable for long sleeves, but bring some layers (including rainwear).</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">I expect Wylder Green (media relations staffer -- nice guy from Texas) to send you details soon. It's all very well organized.</div><div class=""><br class=""></div><div class="">See you there! Feel free to write me privately.<div class="">
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