"Markku Grönroos" wrote in message
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So, by far the most typical example about a tourist who controls his way
(like Frankie boy) is Fjodor who plies the streets of Jaipur on foot. Just
beware of cow manure.

???

Why?

I mean, out in the sticks, yes. But the old milk herds disapeared from
the Indian cities years ago and while you will see a cow or two outside the
big temples their attendants clean up after them.


Last summer I leased a car for almost a week in Egypt. I had a garmin
plotter which supports routing. Unfortunately Navteq who supplies maps to
Garmin doesn't cover Egypt by it's detailed maps but one very small scale
general map and it does not support routing. In Sinai it didn't matter
much because the road network is so scarce and hence obvious. In the Delta
region it was all different. Dense network of roads and directions given
only in Arabic. One day I left from Ismalya town along the Suez Canal to
Alexandria. I had a plan to drive via Zagazig and Tanta (a bit more than
300 kilometres). Well, just before Zagazig I choose a wrong turn and ended
up to a village off track. In Zagazig I missed the right turn to left
(Northwest to Tanta) but continued to north. By reading my plotter I soon
realized that I was on the Al-Mansura road instead of the planned Tanta
road. So, I took a wrong road but I wasn't lost, thank's to the plotter. I
decided to drive all the way to Al-Mansura and from there to Tanta and
Alex. I left Ismalya in early morning and I reached the city limits of
Alex around 16:00. Pretty slow but very illuminating a journey....

Take it from me, the last thing anyone worries about in India is a lack of
roads.

A lack of signs, or a lack of surface, yes...

But there's no lack of roads...

--
William Black


I've seen things you people wouldn't believe.
Barbeques on fire by the chalets past the castle headland
I watched the gift shops glitter in the darkness off the Newborough gate
All these moments will be lost in time, like icecream on the beach
Time for tea.