Sunday, October 5, 2014

We Move to Yokohama

We drove to Yokohama after checking out of our tourist hotel. We have two days to kill before we embark on our cruise ship.


The weather was awful - notice the guys cycling to work in the photo above?

We drove to Yokohama and on to a specially-designated historical park, which turned out to be a bad idea because it was flooded. Yokohama received 12 inches of rain in the past 24 hours. Notice the picnic area?


We left the park and drove on to Yokohama's Chinatown. We feel our luck began to turn here. The rain stopped. Lunch was great. 


Soup and salad. Rice. Tea.


Beef and broccoli (or some sort of green veg). Noodles with clams.


Pistachio custard and a bill for $20. I'm happy.

We walk and talk and shop. We sit in the sun. It's too hot!



We hop back on the bus and head for our hotel - which has been a bit ornery on the telephone with us, I must admit. When we pull up to the front, we can't believe our eyes!

Now I want you to think back to the first book on Narnia:

"ONCE there were four children whose names were Peter, Susan, Edmund and Lucy. This story is about something that happened to them when they were sent away from London during the war because of the air-raids. 

They were sent to the house of an old Professor who lived in the heart of the country, ten miles from the nearest railway station and two miles from the nearest post office. He had no wife and he lived in a very large house with a housekeeper called Mrs Macready and three servants...

As soon as they had said good night to the Professor and gone upstairs on the first night, the boys came into the girls' room and they all talked it over.

"We've fallen on our feet and no mistake," said Peter. "This is going to be perfectly splendid..."

That's how we felt when we walked into our room in Yokohama's Intercontinental Hotel. Yeowza!


What a gorgeous building and fabulous view!


Yes, we are "stuck" here for 2 days, for the same price as a tired hotel on the main drag in San Luis Obisbo a few weeks ago.


This is going to be perfectly splendid. 


Laurie agrees.



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