by CCS » 14 Jun 2016 17:14
I generally just go out with a vague idea and try to remember the names of a few towns / villages, or road names / important junction points - often with google maps for backup (I have a Garmin 910xt which is far as I know is bugger all use at helping with navigation)
Occasionally, I do plot a route in Strava, and refer back to this on my phone if I am feeling lost.
I did buy the BAT a Garmin 810 (how is it that he has a better Garmin than me, but rides much less?) - and we did upload some routes from Strava into this when we went exploring Normandy on our bikes, and that worked pretty well (although there might have been a slight issue with me not knowing the exact location of the gite we rented when planning the routes, so there was a bit of a random section at the start of every ride with an annoying Garmin constantly beeping to tell us we were off route, until we got ourselves onto the planned route). Overall, it worked pretty well though for navigating us round completely unfamiliar territory...
Talking to myself and feeling old