New Year approaches

2005 is getting ever nearer. I'm still feeling a bit under the weather, so I'm giving the town's pubs a miss and trying to get into the spirit of things at home. As I've done in the past, I've used to the net to tune into radio stations around the world as New Year arrives in the various timezones. No great celebrations hear from Kyrgyzstan, Reunion or Russia's radio stations, although a couple of Russian stations played the Kremlin Chimes and the full national anthem, although I think this is fairly standard practice.

Coming up next in GMT+2 countries are central African states, Israel, Finland, the Baltic states and Cyprus.