Apparently the readership of my small niche of the web has no interest in GPS at all, because I received zero replies after my recent inquiry. Oh well, I don’t mind, really.
So today I went on a GPS unit foray with the intent of getting an eTrex Summit, which costs about EUR 220 in Germany, but came back home with something significantly better for a smaller price:
At their fantastic Cologne store Globetrotter is currently selling out their stock of eTrex Vista units which normally cost EUR 429 for EUR 199, because apparently Garmin is about to release a new model or something like that in the next weeks. This means that one gets the Vista unit which has all features of Summit plus basemap support (which I don’t really, but this doesn’t matter) for 20 bucks less. Pretty cool price. Pretty cool toy.