Two weeks in July

July 16 2010

Dawn in Brisbane feels bitterly cold in midwinter, and the security delays for international flights in the modern paranoid era means that a mid-morning flight requires a pre-dawn departure from the house.

So it was that I was rugged-up for winter when I boarded the JAL Boeing for a nine-hour flight to Tokyo.

This proved to be a mistake, for we arrived just on sunset in the mid-summer, and the outside temperature was over 30 degrees Celsius.

At midnight.

Hotter in the daytime at Narita.