Bonjour and hello. Back from France/Germany and the verdict on Tom Tom is in. Positives - It's much easier to read the route and to see the road contours ahead than G Maps. The verbal instructions are, again, clearer and make more sense imo. You don't have to press anything to move on to the next destination in a route plan. Overall, really good and at £14 for the year, a sound purchase.
Buuuuuuut, it twice failed to load a route (2 different pre-planned routes on 2 separate days) and I had to resort to G Maps which worked faultlessly but I missed some of the POI's I'd programmed in along the route. It also took me into a trading estate with what looked to have been a through road at some point but whiuch had been closed for what appeared to be some time and it was unaware of what may have been a recently implemented one way system in some smallish French village/town.
So, overall, it's very good when it works despite the odd foible.
I'm off again at the end of Aug so we shall see if I was unlucky or othwerwise this time around.
Also the Peage (which I've never used before) almost felt like some kind of cheat code. OK it's not cheap but it's not desperately expensive either and if you want to make fast, easy progress it's bloomin amazing. The de-restricted autobahn I was less of a fan of. It seems that I need some sort of hand on my shoulder telling me how fast I can go even if it's so I can go just that bit faster than strictly allowed.
