Comment

Comment on The invention of smartphones probably made the idea of international travel less intimidating since you now have a pocket translator tool and can find your way in a foreign place with GPS navigation.

realitista@lemmus.org ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago

As someone who traveled extensively before and after, it’s a huge difference. I traveled Europe for 6 months with no mobile phone whatsoever. Only paper maps and pay phones and no hotel reservations. That was a proper adventure. Now there’s essentially nothing that can go wrong.

source

Sort:hotnew top

__Lost__@lemmy.dbzer0.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
Yeah, I miss the adventure part of learning a new city with just a handful of polite words to get you by. I’ve also noticed that pretty much everywhere I go there are plenty of people who speak English so less of a reason to learn another language. I still enjoy finding my way around a new city without a map though, and that is easy to keep doing, you just don’t pull out your phone to look at the map.

source
- Trainguyrom@reddthat.com ⁨1⁩ ⁨day⁩ ago
  
  I still enjoy finding my way around a new city without a map though
  
  Heck this is a blast even at home. If I’m given an address in a small town it’s pretty fun to just drive around and try to find the address without looking it up
  
  source