Sat Nav Or A - Z

[nailit]

Is anyone here 'old school' when it comes to driving and getting directions?
Had to drive foodbank van yesterday to pick up several harvest festivals from local churches and schools. Not a problem until the last one which was some miles away and located in a very rural area which I was not familiar with. Had sat nav on board (ive never used one in my life) and was told only the postcode and that it was a Methodist church.
Put postcode in sat nav and followed directions...turn left, take 3rd exit at roundabout etc.
Sat nav eventually said ''You have arrived at your destination''. Looked out of the windows to see nothing but fields of cows. Not a building, let alone a church, in site. Spent nearly an hour driving through narrow country lanes, utterly lost, trying not only to find the church but trying to figure out where I was. Found it eventually when I saw a man walking his dogs and he gave me directions.

If I just had an old fashioned A-Z with an actual address I could have been there an hour earlier.
Anyone else prefer a proper address and map (and simply asking someone) over a sat nav?
Just curious.

[Bazile]

SAT NAV
A-Z is so last year

[Maydup]

Map and OH as navigator if we are both in the car. Directions checked on google map and summarised (Junction 8, 3 roundabouts, past Kings Head, left at lights etc) and written on paper if on my own. I have built in Sat Nav, but on the rare occaison I have used it, like you Nailit, the thing left me in a field, or the wrong end of an industrial estate, wrong side of the railway line, so I've not trusted it since.

[nailit]

A-Z from now on maydup I think....

[Barmaid]

I was a bridesmaid at a methodist chapel near biddulph.

I often have to go to unfamiliar places alone and find somewhere to park. Sat nav is worth its weight in gold. Plus it gives me live traffic updates and detours. For leisure time im happy with a map tho. So much you can miss with sat nav.

[margarettom]

We don't have satnav , so always use Google maps with their written directions, which give you exactly what is on the road signs etc. Also have old fashioned large book of road maps in the car as back up.