Bad news about the kit getting stolen. Always puts a bit of a dampener
on any holiday. It's happened to me once, thankfully only with my
backup body, though.
Hey, if you think Scotland's expensive, I'd avoid England! Last time I
went to Scotland it was dirt cheap compared to London prices - beer,
club entry, food etc (you can see what kind of a trip that was - last of
its kind:)) were about half the price. I believe that only Tokyo,
Stockholm and Oslo are more expensive capital cities than London.
All this talk of photographing the UK makes me think I really ought to
work harder at that. Over the time I've been an OM user (4.5 years) I
think I've taken about 250 films, of which maybe 150 deserve to be
counted as serious photography. I reckon about 15 of those are UK
shots, the rest were taken abroad. I must try and rectify that
imbalance a bit.
And Alan mentioned selling his photos to pay for his trip. That's
something I really must learn how to pull off!
Roger
Volkhart Baumgaertner wrote:
>
> Yo,
>
> on Tue, 19 Mar 2002 21:16:20 -0800, Stephen Scharf wrote:
>
> >Auggghh! This is a trip I have been fantasizing about since I started
> >riding! On a *VFR*, no less!
> >I want to do Britain, but particularly the west coast of Scotland on a VFR!
>
> I'd definitely recommend that. Did Scotland - basically all around the
> coastline - in '99; however, not on a VFR (though we had one in our
> group) but on my own FJ 1200. Great trip, even though on the
> second-last day my tankbag with, among other things, my entire photo
> kit (OM-2n, XA, a few lenses, flash, tripod, part of my exposed film,
> ....) was stolen. If I had to pick a favorite among all the regions we
> passed through it would probably be the area around Loch Carron. I
> definitely liked the west coast better than the eastern one. Edinburgh
> was very interesting. The only negative thing about Scotland is it's
> incredibly expensive (though, since the last government change here,
> we're quickly getting there, too).
>
> MtFbwy,
> Volkhart
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