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Today was very interesting. We visited the medieval village of Entrevaux in the French Alps (I'll post some pics in a seperate thread). Now the interesting thing was, there is this citadelle on top of the mountain and we climbed all the way up, and it was about 30C/86F degrees in the shadow but we climbed in the sun and ... well I am disgressing . Arriving on the top, what do we see? There sits a guy with an A700, vertival grip and a G lens! I started some small talk, and then he reveals his bag with some more lenses and his wife proudly presents a 7D. What a surprise in the middle of nowhere!! I think he was as surprised as I was to see another A700 He was swiss with a Minolta history and we both enjoyed how easy it was to kick of a discussion, just because we belong to the same, small (but growing) Sony community!

When Shirley and I stopped the car on the way to the north-east coast of Tenerife last November, at a small viewpoint with seats on top of the mountains, we realised there were two Dynax 7D shooters there - one equipped with a 400mm f4.5 for shooting wildlife. He turned out to be a dPreview regular and therefore 'knew' me and I knew him! We would have stayed for a while, but we had a long day (coming from the opposite end of the island) and a lot of ground to cover, so we just said hello and talked for a few minutes about the wildlife - all they had seen was rats going for sandwich wrappers thrown away by tourists...

David

Are you going too keep us in suspense David..about who the dpr-er was
Greg
ps The only thing I really know about Tenerife is that terrible accident between the KLM and the PAN-AM 747's, it was one of the accidents described in an issue of Air Accident Reports I happened to pick up in a Newsagent one day, morbidly fascinating stuff actually too find out what causes some of these accidents.

Those medieval villages look incredibly photogenic, but I've often wondered if they all that marvelous too actually live in..eg sans the modern amenities, the novelty might wear off after a while.

Greg

Tenerife -- UGG UGG.
The opnly time we went there w2as top find some sun in the February after my retirement in December. Two days in I got such bad food poisoning from the 5* hotel we were in that I hade to be flown home!!
NEVER again.

My error - not a dPreviewer - a Dyxum regular (though I have not seen the name for some time, active, and can't remember who it is!). French, living in Tenerife and with a Spanish email address as a result.

David