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15th Nov, Yokohama, Japan.

  • Artigo

I've now arrived at the Royal Park Hotel in Yokohama, Japan after an 11 hour and 30 minute flight from London/Heathrow and 90 minutes on a train - jetlag is a wonderful thing smile_sniff

The trip from Narita airport to Yokohama was extremely simple - thanks to everyone that gave suggestions on how to get to Yokohama - the Narita Express train goes straight to Yokohama - very nice...

My hotel room is on the 58th floor, there's quite a view of the city from the hotel room.

Time to go exploring before I fall asleep... - There's a large, multi-level shopping mall attached to the hotel, I bet there's something interesting there...

Yep! - Found the Starbucks, that didn't take long....

Time for a Grande Vanilla Latte and a slice of Lemon Pound Cake (the cake looks interesting/different - but tasted pretty good, I might have to go back tomorrow for some more).

There's a huge ferris wheel close to the hotel, it's pretty windy out today so I doubt there are too many customers going for a ride.

The whole shopping mall is decked out in Christmas decorations, that was quite a surprise, I wasn't sure whether Christmas was celebrated in Japan or not.

I wonder if they have baked beans for breakfast here...

- Mike

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  • Anonymous
    November 14, 2006
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  • Anonymous
    November 14, 2006
    Hi Mike! Did you know that Microsoft Imagine Cup 2005 was taking place in the hotel next to the one you're living in now? :). Some of the judges even lived in the same hotel as you now.

  • Anonymous
    November 14, 2006
    I didn't know that Imagine Cup 2005 was held close to this hotel, that's interesting! I have a free morning tomorrow (launch rehearsals are tomorrow afternoon), so plan on getting out and looking around the area.

  • Mike

  • Anonymous
    November 15, 2006
    Is it just my setup or is the media no longer available from the Windows CE 6.0 launch site ?

  • Anonymous
    November 15, 2006
    seems to be working just fine for me - I went to the http://www.ce6launch.com site, signed in using my passport account and then viewed one of the sessions (Doug Boling talking about Kernel/Memory Architecture). Let me know if you are still having problems and any error messages you get, I can pass these back to the web team.

  • Mike

  • Anonymous
    November 15, 2006
    Hi Mike, The Yokohama is nice place right ?? welcome actualy I am Yokohama too, I want to attend your seminar tomorrow, but all seats is full.... :-( Anthony -- ICOP Tokyo

  • Anonymous
    November 15, 2006
    Yes, Yokohama does appear to be a very nice place - I went for a walkabout for a few hours this morning, the weather was nice. I took some photos (using my i320 smartphone) while on the walk, some of the images are posted on the MEDC2006Team Flickr site - http://www.flickr.com/photos/medc2006team/

  • Mike
  • Anonymous
    November 16, 2006
    You really should try the Katsu-Don breakfast in one of the Soba-Ya in the underground.  A big bowl of noodle soup with a couple of thin slices of port cutlet, it keeps you warm on cold mornings until at least 10am.