A long time searching
Ruth has always been a great believer in using paper maps to navigate when she drives anywhere. Yesterday evening she set off the Cologne to attend the EuroSTAR 2004 conference on software testing, where she is presenting a paper on setting up a test lab. As usual, she declined to take our portable navigation system and set off with a printout of the directions and a road atlas.
She reached Cologne in a couple of hours, but then spent over an hour driving round, and round, and round, near the Cologne Exhibition Centre, which is only 800 meters from her hotel – which she couldn’t find. Eventually, she stopped a taxi and followed it to the hotel!
I think she may have finally changed her mind about the usefulness of navigation systems…