Sunday, August 05, 2007

Eight hours from home

England is five days in my past and I’m still acclimatising to the time difference. The received wisdom is that for every time zone you cross, it takes a day for your circadian rhythms to orientate to local time. That makes three more days before I’m properly in synch with British Columbian time.

The remnant of Jet lag is making me edgy and more irritable than normal. I’ve become susceptible to heat rashes and other irritants that rather take the edge off the trip for me. In addition we don’t seem to be doing any of the fun stuff that we promised ourselves; canoeing, fishing etcetera. Apart from the change of scenery and the improved weather, we might as well have stayed on the other side of the bloody Atlantic. I still feel hemmed in. The adventure just isn’t there.

Yet.