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Rob, I so agree with what you have said. I have had Canon cameras since the early '70s when I met someone who had been the official photographer for the RAF here. He was setting up a camera shop and I was lusting after a Nikon but he then put me straight!
So at his recommendation I bought, at...
I'm a Canon camera (and printer!) user but for ext. microphone have a look at Nikon Coolpix P7800 or Fujifilm X30, which do, to see if they meet your other criteria.
Believe me - it happened - it was in the summer of 1974 and I was seriously "hacked off" about it!
I told my host, a Presbyterian minister, about it and he was not as surprised or sceptical as you!!
Many many years ago, unaware of the US restrictions on importing meat products, I took English smoked bacon as a gift for my hosts.
My flight into Miami coincided with the arrival of a couple of flights from Central and South America.
The customs officials were well prepared for them with...
To add to biarritzdon's earlier comment - and I don't mean to be overly pessimistic but such are the "inclinations" of the French.
However "praemonitus praemunitus".
A strike or public holiday on a Thursday and the Friday can become what the French call a "pont" (bridge) day to the weekend...
My mother (also born in Edinburgh) used the same method.
I believe that the original Bircher Muesli recipe also required the overnight soaking method. Not this modern, no overnight soaking, masochistic tooth grinding/eroding jaw tiring method.
I, occasionally, mix raw oats with yoghurt and...
Still true, Alwyn, which is why we have RP (received pronunciation)/BBC English as a lingua Franca in the UK so as to be understood countrywide ! Though it can be thought of as "posh" to speak it and in some rough parts i.e. North of the Thames E-W corridor (only teasing) can provoke, as I have...
Ivar, I think the present set-up is perfectly adequate.
For which thank you.
Anything more would only complicate and confuse a newcomer looking for advice and information
And anything less would not be sufficient.
Gerard,
Elegantly very elegantly told
But
Naughty very naughty thoughts
I have those too
But never admit to them now
For when in the past I have people look so appalled I don't what to do or say!
In my (inexperienced view re: actually walking the CdF) "Pot and the Camino - more alike than you thought" - is a very silly and facile comparison.
If one is to have a "medicinal" i.e. "chemical" reason (excuse) for walking a Camino to SdC then I would suggest that cerveza/vino/pacharan are...
Such openness, such honesty Gerard.
Your heart on sleeve and your transparency of thought
Almost always guaranteed to get you in trouble Gerard!
Loved the tale and the telling of it
And agree with the conundrum, the puzzle, of your final question.
Can never understand why such candour provokes...
I have a sleeveless (gilet?) ScotteVest which I wear here in the UK during the English summer (what that?) months.
It is useful and does have numerous pockets and hideaways - possibly too many.
But as Gerard gerardcarey and Wokabaut_Meri have pointed out it is very useful for "loading"...
Maggie, what a lovely and gracious post.
And astonishment and amazement, with your bronchial problems, to have made the complete pilgrimage journey.
An encouragement and an examplar for the rest of us.
Many congratulations.
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