My car just refused to start. Again .

It wouldn't start yesterday when husband was out with the dogs. I went and collected the dogs while he waited for the ANWB (Dutch AA). They got it going again, but it won't start again now.

Luckily I have my husband's car until Wednesday night, so I shall have to see if my garage can have a look at my car in the meantime.
The Prius is not ideal for two dogs, especially when one of them is a great oaf.

I need my car Friday to take the dogs to the kennels, and can't risk getting stuck there.

We really enjoyed the Pacific Northwest because of the beer. Lots of microbreweries to choose from. We would usually order a sampler from them first then decide which beer we wanted.

In fact as I recall we even did that at the Grand Canyon when we stayed there. We had the sampler before dinner, then went back and enjoyed a couple of beers and some good music after dinner, then staggered along the rim in the dark back to our room .

Hope you don't suffer from altitude sickness Kris - lots of people suffer flying into Denver, as opposed to climbing gradually into the Rockies by car.

I look forward to hearing what you think of Denver - it is on my list.

I know you can edit on a netbook, but the small screen is one reason not to. Plus when I'm on holiday I tend to have better things to do than edit my photos. They can wait until I get home.
I may geotag them on the netbook though, just to get that horrible task out of the way every day.

We have to keep this going - nearly to 100 pages.

Glad you corrected Yves, we've never had trouble buying beer in a grocery store in the US.

One time in AZ they did ask my husband for his ID - he was 60 at the time .

had it changed much? It felt like we had entered a time warp after crossing the Solent. the ferry is ridiculously expensive for what it is.

We found a great microbrewery on the IOW near the IOW Glass studios. Can't for the life of me remember the name but it was good stuff.

The only reason I won't use mine for editing is the size of the screen.

I shall view the photos (hence Irfanview) and probably tag them etc but editing will wait for the big screen.

My husband is hoping to use my netbook to edit his jpegs. Fat chance

We often travel by winging it and it is then good to have internet to search for the next hotel. In the past we have lugged his laptop with us, but now we don't need to. We will be winging it to a certain extent in France as we are pottering down to the first house, and pottering back up, so internet would be handy but it's not essential.
Mobile internet is too expensive roaming from NL, and I wouldn't use it here anyway - all my family have Wifi networks and there is always a McD or a train or something with free Wifi. Mobile internet is nearly impossible to organise in France I'm told, so I shan't be looking for a dongle and SIM there. So a few Internet free weeks. Will I survive?

Thanks Peter. I have bookmarked it and will have a good read of it later.

Whatever you do buy Stefan do NOT buy Guinness here. It is horrible. The only place to drink the black stuff is in Ireland.

You can buy some English beers from places like www.thevillageshop.nl - they have Spitfire, Bishop's Finger, Old Speckled Hen and Wychwood Hobgoblin. Many independent slijters also have a couple of English beers.

If you go to the US then find a microbrewery and enjoy some excellent beer. Just avoid the big names there - even worse than Heineken

A friend has CS3 on a 450 Atom processor powered Eee. He upgraded to 2GB Ram on it and full Windows 7.
Quite why he put PS on it I have no idea, as the screen is so small, but it seems to run fine for most things, just a bit slower.

I'll stick to Irfanview for now.
Mine will get used in anger when we go away next weekend. No internet though so I shan't be keeping up with events here, unless I find a McD.

Wife with taste