Death before arrival
Yesterday, my brandnew car GPSr gave up the ghost on the eve of my holiday.
A screen with ‘loading maps’ was the only thing that it wanted to share with me. Nothing helped to reanimate the device. It had already its quirks from the beginning and I was beginning that I bought a lemon or at least a Monday model. Anyway, after a excellent intervention by my favourite GPS shop, I could exchange it. It’s the second time in a short period that Pieter needed to come to aid me urgently. It is yet another good example on what good service can be.
Since I needed to pick up my device in Brussels, I made a virtue of necessity and picked up the following caches:
- 2 voor de prijs van 1 GCG43G
- N-O-H GCR75E
- Enclos des Fusillés GCWQY2
- ASIA GC13FWJ
- Transparency GC18HRG
- Ring R0 – Exit 6 Vilvoorde/Koningslo GC1AHTX
- St Nicolas GC1TR0T
Looking back, I was lucky things didn’t get wrong on my holiday. But I don’t feel secure about it though and I am also disappointed about it. After all, such a Garmin 865T don’t come cheap and one doesn’t that was the last thing in the world that I had expected. Maybe I should do like in the old days: get the itinerary online and take along a printout as backup.
