Ashes halt air traffic

Just remember that the French (and most of their neighbours) drive on the WRONG side of the road.

Me not driving I'm on a coach tour - so the Professional has the job .

Now to pack the NEW camera bag

The solid stuff (mainly glass I think) in the cloud also knackered the engines to the extent that they all had to be scrapped.

Ahem! Ahem! Islanders drive on the wrong side of the roads. U.K., Australia, Japan, New Zealand...

Since when has India been an Island? or Pakistan? or South and Southern Africa? or China? They all drive on the right side of the road too.

Nope, we drive on the correct side of the road, all you others are just following Napoleon!

NEW, how many camera bags does a girl need?

Exactly ... and when you consider the position of controls and especially the gear stick, the driver sitting on the right is the better position to control the car for a vast majority. Most people are right handed and have better control with the right had so that should stay on the steering wheel. When changing gear, a driver on the right uses his less co-ordinated left hand whereas a driver on the left uses his left and has less control over the car direction.

Yes - I know I have BBA I fear .

BUT in my defence the Lowepro EX 160 only takes the K-x and the spare lens , the flash is just too much for it

the Microtrekker 100 takes everything with a squeeze but when I eventually get that 40mm ltd , there won't be room for it

And since I'm off taking both the 18-55 and the 50 - 200 AND the flash - well Calumet made a sale today. Being quite honest I tried 2 bags and both the salesman [ Donald ] and I looked at the smaller one and laughed - he then went and got the CV998 link

And I put things in there and we had some space left [ quite a bit really ] so that bag came home with me .

Bag is now packed and incredibly the 2 external front pockets are empty I've tried it on - and with everything in it it doesn't seem heavy

Schiphol Amsterdam has closed at 18.00 hours. Will probably be closed until tomorrow morning 06.00.

OK now here's hoping we don't start the discussion about the safety of Automatic over Manual Gears

... everything further north than Jyväskylä is closed, Helsinki probably will be tomorrow.

Bret

But it could be as long as 48 hours

On the LHD/RHD argument - Suriname, a former Dutch colony, in South America, drives on the left, so definitely not only islanders or former British colonies. It along with Belize are the only countries in the mainland Americas still driving on the left
Sweden drove on the left until 1967, Iceland until 1968.
Canada drove on the left until 1923, and Newfoundland only switched sides in 1947, just before it joined Canada in 1949.
Argentina only switched because of the Pan-American highway.

And Samoa has seen sense and last year moved to the right (correct) side of the road. They now drive on the left too.

Actually Guyana drives on the left too and I think Belize drives on the wrong side - although friends who have been there say that the locals "drive on the smoothest side!"