I'm half way through my week in San Diego, and it looks like they do have some computers here! Sarcasm aside, considering the dot com history of this place, I haven't seen a single internet cafe - neither is Starbucks populated by bored looking people trying to look bourgeois with laptops. Maybe computers are passe here now (sorry, can't do accents or graves on this a;erican keyboard - they would only come out pronounced all wrong anyway).

It is fantastic here though - my epic flight from Charles De Gaulle to Chicago to Denver to San Diego was a real endurance test, with brief periods of blinding blizzards at each stop. Until I arrived here that is - the weather is astounding! Bright blue skies, hot & sunny - my first stop had to be to buy sunblock! Which actually proved to be essential - I'm here without a car, and even quick walks to the shops are proving vast concrete treks. Asking directions results in distances given in blocks, which turn out to be miles and miles! Apparently 6 blocks is nothing - if you've got a car!!! Invariably I head off in the wrong direction anyway, and trudge for a few miles before doubling back - for a typical american city in a grid layout, how can I get lost so constantly?

Anyway, the flight back is in a couple of days, and this time it'll be San Diego, LA, London and then finally Paris. Hope the inflight movies are good....