New Year's Eve, South Africa...
It is 10:54 am on the 31st December 2014 as I prepare to board my 'Jet Airways' flight from Johannesburg to Bangkok. This leg of the flight is operated by South African Airways to Mumbai where I will land at 00:05 (local) hours on New Years Day. It occurred to me that it would still be around 20:00 and 18:00 in Johannesburg and London respectively, had I been flying the other way I could have celebrated at least twice!