Well I won't be abroad of course - the Swiss will be. I'm sure it will all be fine, but I don't won't them to feel they must speak English just because of me - I hate that, and besides they are the paying guests!
As for ordering a beer - I can do that just fine in Dutch. Or pick one out of the crate on board .

It will be really good if the weather brightens up a bit. We had summer in April and now seem to be into autumn already .

I have the RZ-10. It costs quite a bit more than the I-10 does, but is a brilliant little camera with 10x zoom (28-280).
Not sure you could get one second hand yet though.

My Daughter-in-law is German and my son is pretty fluent in German too. Not sure how good their Swiss German is . I may feel a bit left out at meal times, but that's OK, I can always talk to their dog .

It will cost me €60 for the food, I get my bed for free. Which is daft really - they will lose money on this trip which they can't really afford to do. I have offered to pay the going rate for it.

Anyway I am going. 3 days on the Wad. Great! Not very relaxing as we are expected to help with sailing - raising and lowering 220sq m of sails is hard work, but hopefully enough photo ops to keep me happy.

Alan is staying behind to dogsit and attend endless meetings.
He gets the Thursday and Friday off for Ascension Day, but I'll be back by then.

My eldest son has just asked if I want to go sailing for three days at the end of the month. They have an individual trip arranged but only two people have booked for it. Since they will be travelling from Switzerland they are going to do the trip, but have lot of empty berths. So if I can get the dog sorted I shall be going. If my husband wants to go as well then I shall have to book the dog into kennels if he doesn't go the dog will just have to put up with a few long days alone.
He has asked my other two sons as well, but I doubt they can get the time off.

Only fly in the ointment is I don't speak German and my French is terrible. Ah well it will still be good. Hopefully we'll have some good sailing weather, so we don't have to motor too much.

There's this one.

Or OPtech do a range of them.

The only time I had a problem with condensation was much further south, below the Arctic circle, where it was noticeably damper but still below freezing - then there would be condensation on the camera on re-entering the warm of the ship. That is the only time I used a plastic bag with it. It just wasn't needed further north, and inland would be even less needed I would have thought.

My photos from the frozen north can be seen here. All low res I'm afraid but they give you an idea.

I was in Norway in February, in a lot colder than -15. I have a K5 and it worked just fine. I had three batteries with me, but they were never unduly affected by the cold. I kept a spare in a pocket close to my body (under a couple of layers of clothing) so it was warm in case I needed it, but I never did.
I even used the camera on the dog sled when it was snowing. The camera was covered in ice by the end of the trip but it was fine, and I used it to take several photos in the snow hotel just afterwards without changing batteries or anything. I did chip some of the ice of it though.

I was there in the first half of February and had daylight, even up at the North Cape for several hours a day - it was dark again by about 3.30, but the twilight lasts a long time. Sunrise too was long and spectacular.

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Wow .

Thank you for that Bret. Just beautiful.

Lovely Mike. #1 and #6 for me.