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I would go for the best price and if they were similar I would go for John Lewis. I have been surprised how often their prices seem to very good, but frequently they are sky high.

What did the fried Brussel Sprouts taste like Dileep? I like mine lightly cooked and crunchy.

Nice photos from a lovely part of the world Eric. It looks as if the moon was posing on a very nice mottled blue/black carpet.

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We are happy to play by the rules and it is important that you know them. We have booked well ahead quite often but the next Fred Olsen one we do will probably closer to the cruise and if it is an anchor fare we will be happy to secure the dining option we prefer by paying extra.

Sunflowers for the wild birds:

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A friend of mine asked a member the dining staff whether they would prefer individual tips or adhere to the company policy and he said that they would prefer you go with the policy.

I have always done so and feel that is the best way for me. I certainly don't do it for the sweet or chocolate on my pillow.

The water supplied by Fred Olsen has always been of excellent quality and I have found it to be the same on every line I have sailed on except one. I know a former ships officer who agrees with me that the water is as I say. Last year I visited Seattle, Chicago and Alaska (where there was quite a lot of frozen water to be seen) and the water being purchased everywhere was Evian water bottled in France! The highlight was the directions on how to make coffee with the advice to use the bottle of water in our room, which was, again, Evian water in a very nice glass bottle cost $9. We survived the trip drinking tap water. Good marketing by the French.

Sunflower field

 

Mckee-Besher-Sunflower2 by sharod1031, on Flickr

A nice photo of the sunflowe, it reminds me of the Tour de France. The photography is superb over the three weeks. I have missed most of it and was reminded to look it up on the web. Graham Watson always covers the tour and his photos are worth looking up, just search mages for tour de france sunflowers

If the search throws up the same links as mine it also features an article in the Huddersfield Daily Examiner newspaper (the tour started in England this year) complete with sunflowers. I wonder if Graham Houghton was there?

I want to include pictures in my CC review. I have downloaded my pictures into Shutterfly -- have individual albums for each port. Here is my problem: I go into Shutterfly, go into my album, select a picture I want to post, right click on the picture, select copy, then go to reply section of a post, and try to paste the picture. HERE is where things go wrong, the paste is not highlighted like nothing was captured and I can't post anything.

 

I am just about ready to give up. Can someone help a poor old senior citizen out?

 

Thanks in advance for your help.

As one poor old senior citizen to another, I must confess to keep getting it wrong. When you right click on "Copy Image Location". That will copy the "URL" (web address) of the image. Then proceed as you have mentioned remembering to take out the http in the box before pasting the URL into the box.

Previously selecting copy was the error , I believe, you made. Select "Copy Image Location".

Good Luck.

I thought the night scene, second to last was superb, night, moon, reflection on the water of the moon, masts etc.

My neighbour told me a woodpecker was attacking his nesting box so I was up early the next morning intent on waiting for it, with tripod, a ladder in case I had to climb to get a good shot, but as I walked out so did Woody and I hastily took a couple shots.

I finally decided and went with the FZ200. After reading this site over and over I changed my mind from an DSLR.

 

I have downloaded Graham Houghton information.

 

Any tips for a new person using this camera? It's a little overwhelming.

 

Thanks for any tips you can offer.

 

Betty

Graham has mentioned and provided a link to Pete Shep's site and from the evidence he takes excellent shots with minimum fuss.

for some detail there is a drop down banner where he gives more detail.

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Will these bottons work? :cool:

 

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They probably would. I have never been very keen to shoot video and always happy with still photography but with the FZ200 I have been much more enthusiastic. It does require a lot more planning. I was out this morning trying out a monopod with three dogs working in the undergrowth. After that will have to plan much more!

Lovely shots of that exotic bird Dileep and the Mormon temple looks to be real - I had to look it up as it looks like icing on a cake.

HMB Endeavour replica at the Australian National Maritime Museum in Sydney

 

Super photo with the lovely replica by modern Sydney.

Hawks

Congratulations on your new camera.

 

Don't feel that you have to master it all at once. Take it slow and watch Graham's introductory videos. Start to learn the main settings and do a lot of shooting.

 

I'm a DSLR shooter and own this camera as well. There is so much packed into it that it takes a lot to learn where things are, buried in menus and dials. Frankly, the camera does a great job in the Intelligent Auto modes, so you should do well starting out there.

 

Enjoy!!

I have to agree with that. I have had mine for quite a while now and started to take a video the other day on my sons boat and because I thought about it became quite confused between selecting video on the dial and operating the shutter release which has worked for me in the past, but I remembered there is a dedicated button for video and I was undecided which course to take, so did both in turn and it was not until I reached home and downloaded everything that I realised that either option worked very well. I will, however, read things over again. I havn't yet invested in a small gemstone to stick on the video button, but I may raid my wifes sewing basket one day when I am really bored.

We have never cruised on Fred Olsen Cruises but they have some very attractively priced cruises going to great places. We are considering some long cruises starting in 2016 when we retire, including a 76 day cruise around Africa. We have read the ships are older(so are we:))

We have sailed on a variety of lines and have recently sailed several times with Fred Olsen and we like it. The smaller ships can nearly always get into port and you can find out before you go if that is the case or not. The entertinment is not always the best but often superb and sometimes quirky - which is entertaining. I would say the food is better than most ships I have sailed with and nearly always available. Every day they have a late night supper, if you are keen on eating around the clock and these are theme events. The drinks are very reasonable and their drinks package I found to be excellent value.

There is the usual ships entertainment and they always have a keen Bridge following as well as a choir formed from passengers. Last year there was a very well attended Ukulele class followed by a concert.

Passengers are well looked after by the staff and I have been impressed by this several times which gives people more confidence to get out and about.

See above for beds as they will not be as good as many others but I have always slept well.

I have a mystery flower. I used to remember its name but for the life of me, now I can't think of its name.

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Sorry to re post all you nice photos. I thought they were not Columbines or Aqualigia, but if you search on Columbine 'Florida' those look very much like your photos.

I tried to grow them from seed for several years. Now I can hardly control them as they self seed everywhere, still better them than a lot of other unwelcome plants (weeds).

I was up early this morning and saw a woodpecker trying to rob the nest of Blue Tits in the garden next door.

Great photos and an impressive variety of birds. One of those in a weekend would be a bonus for me.

I thought you probably did. With climate change we are seeing some of those H's in gardens here. Summer is definately on its way. We have young sparrows.

Nice photo Dave. It looks like what we over the pond call Hydrangeas. It is a lovely colour. I don't have a pink one like that though. They do well where we live in Cornwall with plenty of moisture (rain). Ours will be out in a month or so.

My tree paeonies have finished and here is one or maybe two.

Trematon Castle, Saltash, Cornwall, England. I only found out recently it was used to store Sir Francis Drakes treasure after he sailed around the world as he was unsure of the political situation at the time having been away for almost three years. I have a few photos, this last week has a few bluebells on the bank.

Same photo, better size. I know what I was doing wrong now.