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Post by Alanović on Aug 30, 2019 9:06:14 GMT
I like Breda.
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Post by Avant on Aug 30, 2019 9:44:53 GMT
WDB is clearly a Gloobetrotter.
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Post by Humph on Aug 30, 2019 10:39:25 GMT
Currently at Folkestone waiting to board Le Shuttle. I’ll be in Dusseldorf tonight. Looking forward to a decent wurst!
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Post by Alanović on Aug 30, 2019 11:06:10 GMT
Decent genuine German Bratwurst always available in your local Lidl, usually in several varieties. I bbq'd a load last weekend. Splendid.
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 30, 2019 14:26:09 GMT
You'll need a few bier with your wurst, it will be warm. I'm not far away in the hills near Schmallenberg, currently half way round a walk supping a pils.
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Post by tyrednexited on Aug 30, 2019 14:34:49 GMT
I'm no great fan of the Netherlands in general, but we have found a few places we like quite a lot. Maastricht was, odd. It exuded wealth, had a few interesting sights, but nothing over-exciting, but had more eating/drinking places per sq km than I've seen for a long time. Overall a pleasant atmosphere. We used it as a first night stopover, and will probably do so again for a wider explore.
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Post by Alanović on Aug 30, 2019 14:46:07 GMT
I'd like to visit Baarle-Hertog Baarle-Nassau. Just because it's there.
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Post by tyrednexited on Sept 18, 2019 18:29:24 GMT
I'm back in Maastricht again this evening, as it makes for a decent stopover before an afternoon crossing on Eurotunnel tomorrow.
We discovered even more restaurants and cafés, most generally well populated. I used to think that Vienna was eatery central, but I've revised my opinion.
As we walked into the centre, we watched a young lad do a 29 point manoeuvre to get out of a parking space, when a simple, single reverse would have survived. On our previous visit, three weeks ago and at the exact same spot we watched another young lad parallel parking his car. He decided he wasn't close enough to the kerb (which was, in fact, at that point a mid-height flowerbed retaining wall), so he moved it closer in, audibly dragging the side of the car along the wall, pulled it forward to more sounds of scraping, then back to even more. He then nonchalantly climbed out, with the other side of the car hard against the wall, and with nary a look, walked off and in through an adjacent doorway.
It just so happens that it was the same doorway the 29 pointer had emerged from today.....
.......The Black Widow "Coffee Shop"
I wonder what the car damage statistics are like in the vicinity.......
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Post by tyrednexited on Sept 18, 2019 19:28:02 GMT
....and....
Heading back from around Fulda, we had to circumnavigate Kőln. The prescribed route was via the "Southern Ring" but TMC was giving me dire warnings of severe holdups due to an accident from very early on.
We hit the tailback just where the ring starts (implying 30-40 minutes delay minimum) so, with a quick glance at the alternatives we decided to go the further way round the Northern Ring, and made the slip road cut by 20 metres.
From that point there was solid traffic heading the other way onto the congested portion for some miles, so, being in free moving traffic, we congratulated ourselves on our manoeuvre.
Then, a police car shot up the outside lane, all blues and twos, and as it got a few hundred metres ahead it started weaving across lanes. It soon became evident it was a one car rolling road block.
We were pulled to a halt shortly before a car pulling a recovery trailer with another car on it, which was on what passed for the hard shoulder, facing the oncoming traffic, and with a number of people behind the crash barrier (in the very narrow space between it and a high retaining wall).
TBF, they had put out a warning triangle.....
Police turned them round in front of the waiting queue (the trailer hit the cars barrier in doing so), loaded the passengers into the vehicles (yes, there were more than would fit in the tow car), and, after Polizei retrieved the triangle, escorted them off, straddling the hard shoulder and lane 1, with us being released to follow.
No idea how they got there, but the car on the trailer was scraped, and there being more than a single car-load of people makes one think an amateur recovery gone wrong.
Didn't actually delay us for long, but the Northern Ring still wasn't quite as good as it might be. Major roadworks meant a 3.5t limit (so no heavy lorries, but just. OK for me) and also a 2.3m width limit, which is tight, but just OK for me.
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Post by Humph on Sept 18, 2019 20:15:51 GMT
I know you've said before that you'd put a couple of pounds on in recent years, but 2.3m wide? Blimey ! 😉
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Post by tyrednexited on Sept 18, 2019 20:28:23 GMT
...I'm claustrophobic...
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Post by Humph on Sept 18, 2019 20:33:54 GMT
Is that a fear of Santas?
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Post by tyrednexited on Sept 25, 2019 21:24:11 GMT
Pardon the liberty. Tinypic has gone belly up, so I thought I'd test another hosting site with a picture of Ceszky Krumlov from a week ago....
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Post by WDB on Sept 26, 2019 7:02:52 GMT
Nice. And I note it was taken with a Sony RX100iii. How do you like it?
I remember it was close to £1,000 when it was introduced and can now be had for £400 or less since iv, v, vi and vii came along. I’ve always quite fancied one, but spent my proper-camera budget on Fuji gear instead. But my pocketable Canon S100 is seven years old and lacks some facilities I’ve come to appreciate in the Fujis, such as a hinged LCD and in-camera Raw conversion; in-camera charging is useful too, although the Canon is amazingly light on its battery.
So might it be a good option when even the smallest Fuji, an X70, is more than I want to carry — on the bike, for example, or on a minimal-kit work trip — or when its 28mm-equiv lens is too limiting? Do you find any limitations that might make a later version worth the extra? (I don’t need the longer zoom of the latest ones; a 70mm-equiv is long enough for people pictures.) If so, I will keep my eyes (and credit card reward points) open for manager’s specials at the airport Dixons.
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Post by Rob on Sept 26, 2019 8:15:46 GMT
I have the RX100 V and it is a very good camera. I got fed up carrying around the Panasonic G2 I have.
There's not a huge difference between say a IV and V in terms of spec (lenses are the same on the III, IV and V) but it has a different auto focus system and can take a huge number of photos in quick succession. I think the video capabilities are better too.
Te VI and VII have different lenses which makes them different and not so easy to make direct comparisons. The lenses mean some features were dropped, e.g. the ND filter.
The VI/VII have limited touch screen abilities, e.g. touch to focus.
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