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27th-Jan-2008 11:51 pm - A lovely BookCrossing meeting in Arnhem, Netherlands
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We just had a very nice BookCrossing meeting in my city yesterday.
I was the organiser, and since we have two OBCZs here, I thought it would be nice if we could visit both of them. They're within walking distance from each other, so that shouldn't be a problem. But couldn't we make that short walk a bit more interesting by releasing books along the way?
This is what we ended up doing:

First of all, some BookCrossers came to my house to pick up some boxes of books for registering and releasing. They had a jolly good time digging around in the Book Room, and it wasn't easy to get them out by the time we had to leave in order to meet the others. I practically had to grab their feet and pull!

We all met at two o'clock at OBCZ Manu.


A view of the street where Manu is located, it's the café on the left

We were welcomed by the two owners, who are very BookCrossing-friendly, and who had started their OBCZ themselves.
Even though it was quite crowded, we somehow managed to fit in (there were about 15 or 20 of us). Each of us had something nice to drink and chatted for a while. I handed out some small maps of the city center so no one would get lost, and I had marked my favourite release spots on them.
People formed small groups and started their walk through the city centre, most of them were carrying books to release.
It was great fun thinking of good release spots, and then finding some of them already taken by other people's books! Over a hundred books were released all in all.
We all met again in OBCZ Bazoeka around four o'clock.


Café Bazoeka, click for more pictures

By the time I got there (about ten past four) some BookCrossers were huddling on the doorstep because the place opened a bit late, but as soon as we were inside that was forgotten. We settled to exchange release stories and leftover books, one of our most appreciated members (nrrdgrrl) showed up from South-Africa and a good time was had by all.
Finally we decided to go for a meal together. Some of us had gone home, but there were twelve BookCrossers left, including Stoneshop who met us at the restaurant.
After a very pleasant meal, everyone went their separate ways again.

You'll find some pictures of this meeting here, on BookCrosser LuieLezer's website.
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