A very short note here from cloudy, yet warm, Auckland.
It has been a busy few days: flight to Japan via Heathrow; three days of madly rushing around Tokyo taking in the sights, eating great food and immersing ourselves in Japanese culture; another day of flying to New Zealand via Brisbane, Australia; and then charging around Auckland for most of today. Tomorrow we rent a car and motor southwards. To where, we have no idea, and that's exactly the way it should be.
I've been reasonably good at keeping a hand-written journal of the trip so far. If I manage to keep it up, I'll more than likely type up an abbreviated version (and you can breath a sigh of relief at that; at my current rate, I'll have a novel on my hands before I'm done) when I get back. And I'll probably need to buy another memory stick for the camera before long; snap-happy doesn't begin to describe it ...
