All is NOT glamorous in the world of travel, and we find that we either love or hate Lucy (our GPS with an attitude)! If our guides tell us we will be driving for 3 hours, you can count on us needing 5. She will take us to the most remote corner of anywhere and then lose her signal and just stop.
With all the water in Holland, she didn’t know whether to have us travel on a road or canal.
In Monaco, she had no understanding of what a one way street was (we spent an hour going 3 miles…round and round and round).
And because she thinks she knows it all, if we ask to get out of Monaco and into Italy, rather than take the best road, she just takes us up and out and into the French Alps, whereas 2 miles out of our way would have given us a real road and not a cart path.
Now tomorrow she has her last challenge for awhile: to get us to Montalcino from Pisa in the 3 hour drive time indicated…or she goes in the suitcase and I go buy a map.
Think of all the things you have seen due to Lucy. Maybe she was just trying to open your eyes to something?
Yeah, I never would have seen my life teeter on a precipice, or be abandoned
in a dead end industrial area after dark. It is a love/hate relationship at
this point.
After 4 hours of sleep we are packing up and then going across
the street to the Camp commissary to get some groceries for the apartment.
Then we hope to be there in (only) 3 hours.