A few years ago we woke hearing a commotion outside. We where living in a tiny village at the time, most people haven't heard of it, but's it's called Koringberg and, as can be expected, it was always quite. Turned out the noise was because the rally had come to town and where using our road as the service area and press helicopters where landing in the field next door. Great fun.
At the time just had a Kyocera point and shoot - remember it was a 3.2 mega pixel - pretty happy with the pics, but battery life was awful round 10 - 15 pics before needing to be recharged!