Navigating the trip

For our two month visit to Europe we have not made any land reservations for lodging or travels but decided to keep the schedule flexible. Everything from the bike touring to the TMB hiking is being planned often just a day ahead or most often the day we arrive at a location and secure a place to stay or camp.

For travel and trains and city navigation we often use google maps.

Google maps telling us what trains and connections
Zooming down into routes and trains / google often knows about train cancellations or even rail strikes etc that effect the schedules
We use google maps to help find hotels
Air bnb apps find places to stay
We use mapy.cz for our trail navigation and we are discovering more information they provide all off line too
We the windy app to give us weather predictions

We spend a fair enough trying get good Internet service. As you speed along continuous going into train tunnels you lose service and connections.

While we are train traveling it often takes us 3 hours per day to map out trains and arrange hotels and walking from train station to hotels and other logistics.

Some nights on weekends hotels can be very full and difficult to find options to stay.

Getting directions from Airbnb hosts / a 4th floor apartment in Nice

Other logistics like grocery or coffee or shop we use google maps

Finding groceries and hours

By Cookies

I’m California native with a sharing and exploring spirit.

4 comments

  1. Wow, I love the photography you have been doing!!!!! Really like the captions too.
    And the navigation is kind of intense!!!!
    Hope you’re healthy and enjoying the pastries (Sailor) and coffee (Scott).
    Thanks for sharing

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      1. This is Mike making the comment 🙂

        It’s really exciting to see/hear your experiences….Sailor really drives the experiences, doesn’t she? Are you more interested in travel? I really liked New Zealand!!!

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  2. That’s the way to go on this trip. Don’t have a plan and stick to it. You always seem to find shelter. Maybe should have a tracking device on so someone can find you if you go MIA!

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