Little things that make a difference
My partner needed to do some banking. Sitting in Big Paul I waited at the parking lot of the bank, as a car with an out of town licence plate pulled up. A man got out and knocked on my side window. I lowered the window, expecting him to ask for directions as tourists often do.
“Do you have stamps?”, he asked me.
“No”, I replied somewhat puzzled.
He left muttering to himself and drove off.
Smiling to myself, I realized that the guy confused Big Paul with a vehicle of the German postal services and thought I was a postman.
The realm of apps
Up to now, I refused to install apps on my cell phone.
There was no need.
All I needed a cell phone for was making phone calls.
Call me a dinosaur, if you like.
However, with our trip ahead I needed to establish some basics: mobile internet connection to be able to work while on tour.
So, I connected my cell phone to the app store and dove into the world of apps.
That by itself is an adventure. I found a lot of useful applications: HereWeGo for navigation, Park4Night to find campgrounds to name my favorites. Also a compass app and a currency conversion app made it into my list.
When I tried out the navigation app, I found it mute. It would not talk to me. After some research, I realized that it required a language file. I found four in German. The first I downloaded was a standard voice that sounded quite scratchy. The second voice pronounced the sound of “sh” like a “ch”. Annoying. Voice number four finally met my expectation. Hurrah!
My question to you:
Do you have apps you could recommend that would be useful on our trip? Please tell me in the comments.
