eek! eeek! eeeeek! My iPhopne has turned into a blackberry

I foolishly tried to update my iPhone to ios5 on Saturday night in Geneva; it's now locked and can't be recognised by iTunes which tells me I need to visit my carrier store and get a new sim.

My carrier store is Telstra at Lithgow Valley; I won't be visiting until 17 or 18 November. So no iPhon e and hence no iPad connection (via iPhone because nothing can tell me the number of my iPad sim which naturally I didn't write down before leaving Australia because I thought I had, I thought, bought sim cards with UK numbers from a company in Melbourne – which of course refuse to work)

eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeek!

So no handy computer on the go; no calls (which is fine).

Techno disaster (also ANZ Travel Cards don't work if you forget the ridiculously long and unneccessarily complicated pin numbers). But there's (so far) cash advances on Visa and Mastercard,

Ho hum; the problems of travel (like a back after four days of Turinoise cobblestones and dodging cars, vans, bicycle riders on the long long streets of Turin).

Travel is not without it downside.