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I posted a few weeks ago asking infor for GPS. I am happy to report the setup I acquired worked very well having just returned home yesterday from two weeks of vacation in Spain and Morocco.
Knowing nothing about GPS before the trip, I did a little research and found the most economical way to navigate the streets in Europe with GPS is to get the MS streets and Maps which came with a GPS sensor and buy the Auto Route Europe option as an add on. It worked wonderfully the moment we turned it on my laptop climbing inside our rental car in Madrid Airport. For the next 10 days it saves us numerous missed turns driving in the narrow streets inside the cities of Spain. We didn't bring our rental car to Morocco because the the car rental company forbids it (unless we are willing to pay 3,000 euro more for insurance). We left it in the port city of Tarifa, Spain while visiting Fes, Morocco for three days.
It is a culturally enlightening trip for all five of us. The fact most of Spain was very much influenced by the Arab culture makes visiting both countries more compelling so. Morocco is out of this world, totally foreign (Arabic) yet the people are most friendly. If you speak only English you cannot possibly get around without a guide. At least in the beginning it is so. Many Moroccans you meet would say to you in few English words they can muster "You're welcome." (What he meant is you are welcome in his country.) Although many of them would try to sell you something. In a country where unemployment is typically 25% and a typical wage earner gets paid about $20 a day it is not difficult to understand why. Yet the harmony among people and apparent low crime rate in very congested neighborhood (at least to an undiscerning tourist) amazes me.
Unlike six years ago when we last visited, Spain is no longer cheap. It is at least as expensive as the US, if not more expensive. I often wonder how an average Spaniard gets by, knowing he is not nearly paid as well as his counterpart in the US and things are cheaper in the US in general.
Two weeks is the limit all five of us (wife and three grown kids) can take. A few of us got sick because of the hectic traveling schedule. I am still under the weather. We covered a lot of ground including Madrid, Toledo, Granada, Montefrio, Tarifa, Fes in Morocco, Sevilla and finally Barcelona (by domestic flight). It is good to be home.
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