Sunday 25 July 2010

Knitting by GPS or by Map?

The most important decision when going on a holiday, is -of course - what knitting to bring along. It must be something simple -yet interesting, something small - but it has to last the whole trip, and the yarn must be "travel-friendly" and not to sensitive. I settled on a pair of socks, Nancy Bush´s "Meida´s Socks" (Ravelry link). I have knitted this pattern before and it was a delightful pattern. The yarn is Ateljé Huskroken "Eko", ecological cotton. I bought it two years ago on a trip to Gotland.

My husband bought himself a new toy for this trip: a GPS. A bit surprizing, as we are both fond of reading maps and usually have no problems to find our way. This toy speaks with a female voice so we namned her UllaBella, and we soon got used to being ordered around. But we kept glancing at the map as well, to find funny-sounding names and interesting thing that may be worth a stop. The GPS actually was very good and always got us where we wanted to end up. And the polite voice never betrayed even a hint of irritation when we again and again left the planned route to explore something interesting.



On the E 6, going south towards Göteborg.




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