Nope, maps of that area of the world DO NOT exist. I lived there and, well, when they see you guys coming they're going to firing up the kettles 'cause the fresh meat done arrived in town.
Here's some advice from an old timer.
Instead of taking a GPS and fiddling with it all the time, you could (HORROR), try a service station after you arrive in Central Europe, or (SHREIK) try local language portals like www.seznam.cz or (EEEEE!) even call their national tourism offices in New York and Washington DC.... or the most dastardly thing of all..... order a European road atlas from Amazon.co.uk.
If they're really bringing in video game stuff, I wanna join the Army and use them there "Stinky Hands" from Dakitana or that crossbow that shoots TNT-loaded chickens from Redneck Rampage.
Never mind Crudsader, here comes a divisions of camoulaged soldiers waving Stinky Hands and chickens over the horizon.....
Just another example of the bureaucratic mindset from Brussels. Everything is produced by committee, and what seems like an OK idea turns into a mammoth pile of crap. (For another example, look at the Euro.)
While the rest of the world and many Europeans see this pile of crap as a pile of crap, European Commission bureaucrats insist that the said crap is actually a tool for business growth and equalling the playing field.
Reality plays very little in Brussels, and this kind of move only further pisses off local consumers/voters. Tagentially, these kinds of actions give the extreme right more political issues to define itself against.
Europe already lags behind the US and Japan in on-line sales, and imposing 20% VAT will go far to cementing that third place ranking. Consumers are already getting hammered by inflation caused b the Euro, this will just dissuade them from buyig further.
As for me, I'll stay with my warez thank you very much.
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Nope, maps of that area of the world DO NOT exist. I lived there and, well, when they see you guys coming they're going to firing up the kettles 'cause the fresh meat done arrived in town.
Here's some advice from an old timer.
Instead of taking a GPS and fiddling with it all the time, you could (HORROR), try a service station after you arrive in Central Europe, or (SHREIK) try local language portals like www.seznam.cz or (EEEEE!) even call their national tourism offices in New York and Washington DC.... or the most dastardly thing of all..... order a European road atlas from Amazon.co.uk.
Low tech, but effective.
If they're really bringing in video game stuff, I wanna join the Army and use them there "Stinky Hands" from Dakitana or that crossbow that shoots TNT-loaded chickens from Redneck Rampage. Never mind Crudsader, here comes a divisions of camoulaged soldiers waving Stinky Hands and chickens over the horizon.....
Just another example of the bureaucratic mindset from Brussels. Everything is produced by committee, and what seems like an OK idea turns into a mammoth pile of crap. (For another example, look at the Euro.)
While the rest of the world and many Europeans see this pile of crap as a pile of crap, European Commission bureaucrats insist that the said crap is actually a tool for business growth and equalling the playing field.
Reality plays very little in Brussels, and this kind of move only further pisses off local consumers/voters. Tagentially, these kinds of actions give the extreme right more political issues to define itself against.
Europe already lags behind the US and Japan in on-line sales, and imposing 20% VAT will go far to cementing that third place ranking. Consumers are already getting hammered by inflation caused b the Euro, this will just dissuade them from buyig further.
As for me, I'll stay with my warez thank you very much.