No matter how many times I hear "weefee," it takes a moment to translate it to wifi. For international travel, you can't beat T-Mobile's plans. But, alas, Bosnia Herzegovina is outside of coverage. Well, at least, the free, don't-have-to-take-out-a-second-mortgage kind of coverage. So we were sorely missing that GPS lady and her directions to turn left on "unintelligible road name, slash, unintelligible road name, slash, unintelligible number, slash, unintelligible number." So we were on our own in getting to the Shangri La in Mostar -- Jonathan's eagle eyes saved the day when he spotted the road sign. And it was even trickier in Sarajevo. We snagged a tourist map with pictures of the noteworthy buildings with a key to their location on the map, which helped us get acclimated to the city layout. It only took about 3 or 4 circles around the very long block in rush hour traffic to find our lovely apartment nestled in a tiny street that leads to a pedestrian way into Old Town.
But getting to Bosnia didn't go as planned. The GPS lady took an early exit as we tried to leave Croatia by a scenic back road into Bosnia. We wound up near Mount Srd, which is the hilltop where Napoleon built a fort and the cable car transports tourists. It is also where Dubrovnik was defended and the site of unexploded land mines and God knows what else……which have been cleaned out since the war. Or have they? We decided not to risk more misdirections, especially since the road was single-laned and very popular with trucks coming from the opposite direction. When we were approached by a friendly Croatian who noticed us pondering the map……"you want to go to Bosnia? That is another country; this is Croatia;" we took his advice and followed him back down into Dubrovnik and the coastal route through Neum and its redundant border crossings and ultimately into Bosnia. GPS lady, we're missing you, but at least we haven't made a mistake as big as the one made by Columbus.
Sorry to hear that weefee is so expensive in Bosnia Herzegovina and that you're going to have to navigate without the GPS lady, even if she sends you off course occasionally. Will you be able to use the GPS lady in Serbia and Bulgaria or will you have to buy maps and navigate the old-fashioned way?
ReplyDeleteThere are some who would say that Columbus was fortunate to have made the mistake he made. :)) Thinking about the two of you way too much but pleased that things appear to be going so well.