I got chucked out of a party at 4am once in Khartoum, and since I'd marked my hotel that evening I could find it - we were a sad collection of drunks staggering down the dirt roads in town in the dark, but we got the 2km home and we'd have been really hopelessly stuffed otherwise! I Love GPS!
in Tashkent I used to get into random cars, tell the drivers where to go with my awful Russian - Leva, Prima Prava (left, straight & right) and gradually circle in on restaurants, hotels etc.
I always wonder what the people I used as taxis made of me - "you know dear,a strange westerner waved me down, got in my Volga, put a mini TV on the dashboard and then told me to drive round in circles until we got to a restaurant, then he gave me a dollar, picked up his TV and got out - they are very strange people these westerners..."
Don't bother with a road directions version, get a 'hiking' version - far more useful when you are out of europe, and get one which takes SD cards for putting maps on - then google for Garmin Maps (insert country name here..!)
Tony
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