Enjoying a good hour or so of surfing on the ´net at a Viennese hotel where despite the rather minimal facilities they give guests free Web time.

Catching up with Queen of Wands. It´s great, but a bit slow-moving, so I save it up for weeks between reads. Fun stuff over the last month or so but only really comprehensible if you´ver read it from the start.

A somewhat bizarre meeting with dubious ex-Yugoslav businessman tonight. Mostly my colleague speaking the language formerly known as Serbo-Croat (which I can mostly understand) with occasional interjections from me in French (which I sort-of speak but my colleague doesn´t understand). Eventually I gave up and came back to the hotel to surf for free.

More meetings tomorrow. Back home on Tuesday, thank heavens.