When you travel, do you familiarize yourself with the street names?

I usually take a good quality travel guide book with me when I travel. It has maps in for the major cities and I can always buy a map when I visit a small town. I look at where my accommodation and the center of the city are on my map. I build up a mental picture of the roads and directions. I look at the street names and this helps me find my way around. I had difficulty in Bulgaria because their language is Cyrillic. I had English street names in my guide book and Cyrillic on the streets or no names at all. I got hopelessly lost and had much confusion with the language barrier. Next door in Romania I got on fine because they have the same alphabet I have in my native tongue. In Parnu in Estonia many streets were not marked and so I had a challenging time trying to find my accommodation.

i like to travel very much.i am crazy about exploring more and more places .and wherever i go i like to memorize the things i saw there and it includes the place name also.even if i try to remember it i dont think i will succeed .i may remember somethings but cant remember the whole. i used to find out new ways and short cuts to reach the places where i usually goes. i used to travel with my friends.and it is a funny thing.i really ejnoy it.

Hi! I love traveling but I never traveled alone. I know that I am poor in geography and map-reading so I would eventually get lost anyway. My companion is my guide. I tend to remember landmarks better than street names, though. If there is a situation and I need to really get out alone, I bring my notepad and scribble some directions, landmarks or street names so that I won't get lost. Happy traveling!

Hello iskayz! I love traveling! It is really one of the things I enjoy best. My one problem is that I am not good at memorizing street names. What I normally do is to get acquainted with the landmarks. I find that more effective rather than memorizing all those street names. I remember going to Hong Kong several years ago for the first time. I tried memorizing the street names, but I failed. What I did was to familiarize myself with the landmarks. From then on, everytime I go to Hong Kong, I no longer have a hard time going around Hong Kong. Same thing is true when I visit Singapore, Malaysia and Thailand. I think the worst experience was with Japan. One time I went there and got acquainted with some landmarks, when I went back about a year and a half after, I couldn't see the landmarks I memorized earlier. There were new structures that practically hid the landmarks I have acquainted myself with. Hahaha!

I try to know how to get around wherever I am. But it takes more than one trip to familiarize myself with my surroundings. In my home city, I know a lot of the area even the small streets and alternative routes. But here in Riyadh where I live now, because I can't drive here, I'm so lazy to remember my way around. I know how to get to my school or the mall, but to go to other places ... um ... no LOL.

When i am travelling i am trying my best to familiarize the place or the names of place. But after a few minutes i forget it, so i only try to find a landmark that easy to remember. Coz sometimes i get distracted and my mind is flying. Happy posting.