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An annotated edition of eighteen hotels: the text in the column, the practical part in the margin.

A working copy, with the notes left in

Eighteen hotels,with notes in the margin.

This is a guide written the way a working copy of a book looks after somebody has read it properly. The hotel is described in the column. Everything you need in order to arrive at it is written in the margin, beside the sentence it belongs to.

How to read an entry

A · The Place

Every entry runs in three lettered paragraphs. A is the place: the street, the island, the weather, whatever stands next door. B is the building and what was done to it. C is the night itself, which is the part most guides leave out. The notes beside this paragraph are real notes from an entry further on, and they are marked A because they belong to a paragraph about a place. On a narrow screen the margin folds in and each note sits directly under the paragraph it was written for. Nothing in a note is an opinion about the hotel.

ASeasonIcebergs pass in late spring; winter storms close roads for a day.
AGetting thereFly to Gander, drive north, then take the ferry to Fogo Island.

The Margin explains all four notes and where the material comes from.

The eighteen

What holds these eighteen together is not a continent and not a price. In every one of them the building decides how the night goes: a banking hall under the breakfast tables, a grain elevator with bent glass, a shelf you climb into, a wall of snow that will be water by May. We describe the building, the room and the way in, and we leave the rest to you.