I know there are several posts which touch on this, but none have had the exact answers that match mine.

I'm planning on going on holiday next year (yes, preplanning a lot) and I want to make sure I can take some good mountain/landscape photos before then.

At the moment I have access to a Pentax Optio A10 but I'll lose it soon (I know that's a digital). I always think film photos look best, so I'm thinking of getting a cheap digital camera and a film camera - obviously I'm here to ask about the film camera.

I don't have a huge budget (Ł250 all inclusive and I'd be looking at this as a long term investment since I don't want to chop and change just before the holiday). I'm not interested in shooting portrait photographs and probably I won't need to do up-close shots of earwigs and what have you.

What I do want to do is long shots that will look good and possibly be blown up into framed pictures (A4, I have a feeling my budget won't get me anything good enough to go to A3). For example, the shot you'd get from the top of a hill or mountain looking down a valley into the distance - that sort of thing. It would need to have a good focus throughout because I'm aiming to take photos of places like Machu Pichu, so with ruins in the midground which would have to look good.

Panorama shots are also important.

If possible, I'd like the ability to take those lovely moody black&white landscape/skyscape pictures, but that's less important than the above two criteria.

The shots don't have to be professional, publishable shots but they will need to look good enough for me to want to have them framed. The camera has to be sturdy enough to survive bad weather and rough mountain treks.

I'm looking for advice on the following:
1) which camera should I buy look for bearing in mind the budget and requirements?
2) what's a good place to find information on the basics of film photography?
3) is there a good way to transfer images from proper camera film onto the computer or would I be looking at a photography studio place to do that? I'd like to have them in reasonably high definition on a website afterwards.

Thanks in advance and hopefully I've been specific enough in my requirements.