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It is always a bit scary when you’re in a foreign land, on your Jack Jones and required to make a journey of several hundred kilometres without any real idea about how you’re going to accomplish it.

Being absolutely and completely reliant on your sat nav system is, as I’m sure many readers will testify, never a completely satisfactory situation, especially when you’ve no idea whether the system is in either ‘good’ or ‘evil’ mode.

We’ve all heard horror stories here in Ireland of American tourists being sent over untravelled mountain passes by their navigation system when trying to accomplish a simple trip between, say, Kenmare and Bantry.