I wouldn't bother with a garmin for Europe.
It is very rare you can put in an address that it will accept. (For France, haven't tried elsewhere) The only way is to get someone to send the gps co ordinates of your destination. "Some times" you can do that using google maps.
I can't enter in my own address, but google, via Michelin and tom tom are fine.
same with a friends address nearby, and about a dozen other destinations that I want to go to. just this evening Tried to use it to drive to a local person selling goose eggs, the Garmin simply wont let me enter in the address. even though I have the postcode, house name and town( it does know the town, but I can follow sign posts for that).
It does not know ferry port locations in France or the UK but does know airports . I have had to find them and manually enter in the co ordinates when there. Basically it is very good for coming home but useless for going anywhere else.
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