Well hello all fans/obliging family members who read the Sentient Deli. I’m Anton, yet another friend of Terry’s with his own slanted view of the world. Terry has asked me to blog (still surprised that’s considered a verb) all of my travels so that he can live vicariously through me. I work at a gold mine in the Dominican Republic and every six weeks I go gallivanting around the planet to wherever my impulses take me.
The most recent urge took me to the United Kingdom but I’m not going to get into it right now as I don’t have the time required to discuss all of which I’d like to. Instead, I’m going to comment on the best invention for us wandering types ever to be created.
Smartphones.
That’s correct; the best things ever created for travelers are smartphones. Let me illustrate this with a bit of my experience.
I woke up in my hotel on my first day in London and set out. I had just updated my friends and family as to my location and activities through both Facebook and a quick phone call. I then found the directions to the British National Museum using Google maps and while walking there, started researching areas to get lunch (as in good pubs). While eating lunch, I also found and booked hotels for the second half of my journey in Scotland in addition to scoping out the best area in London to party on a Monday night.
All of that information took mere minutes to find. I did not have to line up at a tourist information center, I did not have to harass random locals with annoying tourist questions and best of all I did it all on the fly. The prepaid SIM card cost a total of 15 Canadian dollars for which I received 500mb of access, 3000 or so text messages and 10 dollars in phone credits.
Throughout my trip: I was never lost, I was never bored and I was always connected.
Bloody Brilliant.
I recommend you never leave home without one.
Well, that`s all for now. I will of course follow up with details of the actual trip lest I provoke Terry.
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