I use the one that came free in the back of my Scott Kelby PS Elements book

On my recent holiday trip I took the Sigma 10-20 with me with the intention of using it for landscapes. In fact in stayed in the bag most of the time and I used either the kit lens, plenty wide enough for most scenes, or my old Tamron zoom.
So I would say consider getting the new 55-300mm lens - it will give you a good range in combination with the kit lens, and enable you to zoom in on details in the scenery rather than just giving you a broad view.

In Europe you get a two year guarantee in the country of purchase. Outside that country it is only a one year international guarantee. I checked this with Pentax. Also if you buy one on the grey market - which may internet shops use you also only get a 1 year international guarantee on it.
So if I were to buy a camera from SRS say I would only have a one year guarantee on the camera in Holland - but I could send it back to the UK under guarantee for two years. Given the price of postage and the risk of losing the camera for even longer that is not something I am prepared to do. I shall just have to accept the higher prices here and get the 2 year guarantee.
For lenses it is different - provided they are legally imported - ie all duties are paid on them they have an international guarantee anyway, so those i could buy from the US or wherever.

Just because Switzerland becomes part of Schengen doesn't necessarily mean the end of customs, just the end of passport control - customs is a different thing entirely. Norway for instance is a Schengen land, but not EU and still restricts some imports. It won't affect mail order goods at all, we'll still pay duty on those.
I was wrong about Switzerland being in the EEA .

Plus you have the same guarantee/postage issues as from the UK.
For lenses I would consider it, but for the camera body I shall stick to Pentax NL approved dealers.

Actually I'm not sure you do pay import tax from Switzerland as it is part of the EEA. I'd have to look that one up.

Congratulations Golf! I'll be interested to hear how you get on with it after the Ds.
I still love my Ds and am really not in any great hurry to replace it, so I'll probably wait a little bit longer. When I do upgrade the Ds will go the billpayer as a glorified P&S I expect.

If the dog hadn't been sick this weekend I'd have one by now. I was all set to go for a trip out to Urk Saturday when the dog starting puking all over the place . Couldn't leave him on his own in that state.

Ah well I shall just wait a bit longer and see if the price drops again.

How weird - when I looked earlier it was the price I said. Obviously that was still in my cache so came up with the same price when I checked it again.
Hmmm Urk isn't soo far away now is it. It is definitely getting tempting now.

Can't find it any cheaper than that.

Where have you seen it for that price???
The lowest I have found today is €829 in Urk.