Christmas comes but twice a year.

Another quick, disjointed update - still making party hats for the all-too-early Christmas party in one of the local bars - I'm not expecting to get to sleep until 5 at the earliest. Pray for me.

My consumption of cigarettes is higher now than at any other time since first year of uni, when I was smoking 40 in one day if I was out at night. I've beaten that figure several times already - although at a fifth of the usual price.

I still need to visit something old and interesting while I'm here - Ephesus, maybe, the home of the oldest known brothel in the world. Funnily enough, Saint Nicholas was born round these parts and was Canonised due to his habit of putting money into the drying stockings hanging outside the windows of empoverished prostitutes.

Ho ho ho and all that.

Dave xx

p.s. I wish I'd bought that Barista action figure we saw, I could use some kind of positive voodoo on it right now.