I splashed out on a little toy recently, a Garmin GPS navigation device. Pretty nifty. 3-D maps for all of Europe and a nice voice that says 'Turn Left Now' and that kind of thing. It'll come in handy for those gigs booked for hotels in the middle of nowhere–takes the pressure off.
Ingo suggested another use: as you fall out of the pub (stocious, of course) you can hold it up to your ear like a radio, as it says 'Turn Right Now' etc. and brings you in home without having to expend any brain cells.
I'll be trying it out later on. Any other ideas?
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You could hold it up to your ear and sing harmonies with it as you stagger home.
I got a Nuvi 350 with Europe. Was on holiday in Finland recently and found it invaluble. The pedestrian mode is excellent for when you're on weekend city breaks. I still have my doubts about the reliability of the Irish map as it wants some times to direct me up one way streets the wrong way and once when I was driving on the M2 from Finglas to Ashbourne it looked as if I was driving across a load of fields.
B3N: I found the same thing one time, but I had left it in pedestrian mode by mistake. And you're right, I don't think the maps are 100% up-to-date.
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