The JaYmes Escape

It still impresses me how sitting on a plane for 10 hours can take you from winter in Tokyo where it’s just above freezing and it gets dark at 5pm, to summer in New Zealand where it’s sweltering in the 30s and dark at 9.

Auckland is very relaxing after the bustle of Tokyo and London. So relaxing in fact that my jet lag has caught up with me and has me keeping strange hours. Anyway, apart from getting some (minor) sunburn yesterday I’ve been boring the locals with tales of Eastern Europe and tonight I taught some Kiwi rugby players how to drink vodka and say ‘Na Zdrowie’ in the Polish fashion. A single shot here is a measly 15ml so I had to order triples to do it properly (a single shot in Poland is 40ml), and of course, there’s no decent substitute for Bison, Nemiroff or Russky Standart.

Plenty of pictures of Auckland in the usual place, plus the full set of Tokyo pics is now online.

Some guy in Mexico tried to hack the webserver my site is hosted on and wiped all the index pages (for the geeks amongst you it was down to this vulnerability in AWStats). Hopefully normal service is now resumed but if you notice any oddities please let me know (use the email link to the left).