We depend on google maps to get where we want to go, whether that means In Florida or Florence, Miami or Maldives. Usually that means driving directions, but here in Italy we've used walking directions a lot. They work great, especially with the live view that can see exactly where you are.
When you use any tool as often as we use google maps directions, you're bound to discover some warts and we found them yesterday. We wanted to go to a restaurant that was just Mile or so away, walking shouldn't be a problem right? Well apparently there'll just aren't many sidewalks in this part of Catania in Sicily. If google maps finds no reasonable walking route, what is it supposed to do? It should probably inform you "There is no reasonable walking route to your destination." But that's not what it did. It went ahead and directed us to walk on what should be a driving route only.
Check this out - we were literally taking our lives in our hands walking on a very narrow shoulder with sharp-thorns on the bushes to our left and cars, trucks, and busses whizzing by on our right. In driving around Sicily we've often noticed cars ignoring lanes and riding partly on the shoulder. Yikes!
We made it in one piece. We're alive. And we had a wonderful dinner at La Barraca.
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