They have so many competitions on that site I'm not sure which competition you're referring to. If you go to the home page there are links for Official Photo Contests and Pentax Events, both of which have various competition announcements in.

I think the Blurb software will auto populate the book for you which you can then move around.

+1 for Blurb by the way, have done 3 books with them and have been very impressed. I haven't used the others mentioned and if Blurb continue with the same quality I probably never will.

Lightroom 3 is currently £120 at PCWorld

I guess it will go up again once Amazon's Black Friday offers end

This is correct, which is one of the reasons I don't go there as often as I used to. Too much arguing over politics and religion (and I like an argument!). I do visit there occassionally but only when I'm looking for an answer to something.

I don't think the moderation here is that 'uptight' here either, I have no idea why people feel they have to leave because of it Personally, I feel the mods do a good job and you should all be grateful I'm not in charge!

Are you not a fan of Man U then DrOrloff?

What makes you think that? When I looked recently they hadn't released a beta for v4 yet and last time it took nearly 6 months from the first beta to full release?

edit - 6 months, not 9!

I'd take a rocket blower if you don't have anything else, but you will want to pack it in your hold luggage rather than your backpack as I always get stopped going through security if I've left it in my camera bag.

A gorillapod my be an option for a small lightweight tripod as neither of your lenses are very large or heavy it will easily cope with that, though I don't know anything about the two you suggested.

If possible I'd consider a wide angle lense as well for the cities, trying to capture a church, etc in narrow streets can be difficult.

Hope you have a great trip and take lots of pictures

I like 2 & 6 the best, no 1 looks like it has a snout sticking out of it's ar*e I like the depth of field on no 2 especially.

The others are a little too cropped for me as I like to see animals in their surroundings, even if it's just a field.

Learn something new everyday, thanks

Are you replacing the hoods that came with those lenses for a reason?

I hadn't realised there could be a benefit to 'upgrading' your lense hood?