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Last activity 15 May 2012 by Damsel

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mark49

Hi

My partner has just arrived from uk and her work means she will need to drive around a bit and needs a sat nav has anyone brought one over from uk ive been searching them and they say they have europe maps on them but does that include malta if anyone has brought one over from uk id appreciate the type that brought and if it worked ok

Thanks

tearnet

We brought ours over from France and its an IGO ( purchased from ebay for 60 Euros), european map includes Malta. However, Malta is a small island and we found that a good map is much better than a sat nav. If you get lost ask, we have found that the locals will go out of there way to show you where you need to be.

Terry

mark49

Thanks terry ive been here myself for 14 years but the other half has only been here 6 months so is struggling with finding her way around will look into the IGO on ebay

Thanks

Mark

denize

Don't bother with sat nav.. Malt's only small and as Tearnet above says you're better off with a local map. We were lost years ago and stopped to ask the way.. the guy jumped in and took us to Cirkewwa ( we were in Mosta when we asked him) LOL, about 30 mins away.

georgeingozo

denize wrote:

Don't bother with sat nav.. Malt's only small and as Tearnet above says you're better off with a local map. We were lost years ago and stopped to ask the way.. the guy jumped in and took us to Cirkewwa ( we were in Mosta when we asked him) LOL, about 30 mins away.


was probably the captain running late

tomina

The Maze is helpful :) Good luck

denize

@ Georgein Gozo. Love it lol.

Damsel

I have a tomtom sat nav. I already had Europe on it, but for some some reason Malta was on a different version of Europe and I had to purchase it again (around 40 euros). It is totally out of date/wrong. It always take me down dead end streets and tells me to turn on to non existent roads! It did help me a bit initially but it made me pretty crazy too!

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