Hello, you. Yes I've been a naughty absent blogger, but I've been busy saving for the next trip, see - plus I bought a shiny new TV and a PlayStation 3 in the hope of actually saving money (bear with me here) by not going out.
In other words, I have regressed to my childhood and am little more than a huge unwashed videogame-playing nerd. But a nerd whose going to live in California for three months starting in mid-December! 
I also have the mightiest thumbs in the land and I'll step on any number of tiny Japanese kids to claim my title.
And so, in lieu of the long-promised gubbins all about Wellington, New Zealand, and also regarding the accounts of Switzerland and Austria (and Germany, but we don't talk about Germany..) currently in absentia and likely to stay that way at least for this week, I'm just checking in to apologise for my clocking out these past few months.
In Austria and Switzerzlandzville(z) some properly mentionworthy stuff went down, not least of which the time I got partially humped by a tiny horny primate (he really was just scent-marking me, honestly) and that occasion when.... actually, nothing dangerous or weird really happened, I spent most of my time in & around museums, cathedrals, palaces and medieval towns, and on the public transport between them. (and depleting beers, obviously).
I was trying to absorb lots and lots of culture in the hope some of it might stick, and happily enough I spoke to lots of people, got drunk with many of them and got a pretty good picture of life and the living of it over there.
But I'm not gonna tell you yet. I don't have my notes with me. Hell, I should probably be doing some "work" seeing as I'm getting paid to be in this office, peace out...
