I just came home from vacation in Lisbon in Portugal with my wife and two kids. We rented a car at the airport, and I was prepared for the shortest route to our company appartment in Carcavellos. On paper, printed from Google Maps, and I had also motivated my wife to understand the directions. Beeing used to GPS in my car back home, have made me lazy when figuring out what way to go and what turn to make when. Just in case, I also downloaded GoogleMaps on my Nokia E61 mobile phone the night before we left.
It all went well the first 4 points following the instructions on paper in the dark with no natural way of knowing north from south with the help from the sun and my watch.
Beeing too dependent on paper notes, reduced the gut feeling and normal sense of direction, and all of a sudden we slipped off into the wrong direction, - towards Sintra.
After a while we headed back into the Benfica area, stopped at the first sight of a clear street name crossing another street with a clear street name.
I popped up my E61, started GoogleMaps and entered the names, and in a few seconds it found the right street (first in Brazil....), then in Lisbon. Next step was to enter our final destination for the night, and then click on the route description menu.
From then on, we reached our appartment and could start our holiday, which was great.
Thursday, August 9, 2007
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