Once before I have posted to extoll the advantages of a Satnav or GPS as they are known in France and I confess I would not like to be without one. Yet now and then they do have their Achille's heel as I shall now relate.
We were returning from Lille to home yesterday and had just finished the ticklish task of navigating around Paris, a task for which the Satnav is almost essential. It gives advance notice of left and right turns, which enables you to slide across to the correct lane well before the junction suddenly arrives, necessitating a dirty dive across several lanes in heavy traffic. We had thus arrived at the first Aire after the transit of Paris and stopped to run the dogs and visit the facilities ourselves and buy a cuppa.
We had a yen to have a Macdonalds for dinner and turned to the faithful Navman to find the nearest. Scrolling down the list of restaurants, it offered a Macdo at 4 kilometers distance, ideal, we thought, and set it to navigate towards it.
Back onto the motorway it led us, then 12 kilometers to an exit where we paid 1.60 Europe to leave the toll road, across a bridge and back onto the motorway again, a similar charge being taken. Then 12 k back to the Aire we had just left but on the other side of the carriage way then we could start to cover the 4 kilometers to the Macdo! We won't be caught like that again!
Never mind, we enjoyed our meal when it came, especially after working so hard to reach it!
Bye for now, going to finish my cup of tea!
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