Flight down….
May 8th, 2007 by HenFlight to JavaOne went well. Whisked through security, read Forty Signs of Rain and played Football Manager 2006, and then gambled on the BART train from the airport to San Francisco and comfortably found the hotel - though having “The Westin St Francis” a block before “The Sir Francis Drake” is confusing for the tired traveller. Fortunately my gut told me to continue.
Interesting problems at the hotel - burst pipes had wiped out my room so I was given a larger room on another floor. Only catch? No bed, instead they’d set up a sofa bed. Either it’s half of a larger room still, or it’s a meeting room. Impressively large for a hotel room, we lived in a smaller place for a month when we got to Seattle.
No wifi in the room - or rather many options but none of them work and none look like they belong to the hotel. Nice bath - then time to think about bed as my neighbours get back and start what I hope won’t be an N hour chat on their balcony. It’s sounding like it’s going to be one of those though.
The sofa bed didn’t look very attractive, so I pulled the mattress off onto the floor and took up camp there. Much more comfortable. In fact, better than the beds usually are. Oddly noisy bathroom is going to irritate, along with said neighbours. However - it’s all an adventure.