Driving without a GPS - manageable?

Hello everyone, we are planning to do some driving in Austria and a little bit of Germany. We may not be able to get a GPS unit from the car rental company... Can fellow travellers advise whether we will do fine if I only print out all the driving directions from viamichellin website? And we don%26#39;t understand German too, so not sure if we will have problem reading road signs?

Here is where we plan to go... Thanks for any advice! :)

Salzburg %26gt; Zell am See %26gt; Hall %26gt; Innsbruck %26gt; Fussen (Neuschwantein) %26gt; Lindau %26gt; Bregenz

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a good map will do as well. most of us older folks did okay with these for quite some time........

your routes are easy and the only value of a GPS unit would come into play when getting into or out of cities; there these things are amazing.

printing all routes on Mapquest or similar will also help quite a bit.

road signs are pretty international in Europe, so you should have no problem. check here for a quick study:

alltravelaustria.com/Austria/…Road_Signs.htm

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Hi originbaby,

I visited Austria last November and rented a car in Vienna and drove it to Salzburg and a few areas of the Salzkammergut. I did not rent a GPS but managed with printouts of directions (I used the website mappy.com). The main highways were a breeze, and all the signs were very clear and easy to understand (I am Indian and have a sparse knowledge of German).

It was a little difficult finding our way inside the city, however. Vienna, especially, was a maze of one-way streets. My guess is that you should be fine if you stick to these cities.

I am visiting again this year and am renting a car to drive to most of the places you are driving to :) but in December. A trip report/some driving tips once you are back would be most appreciated!

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Driving in Austria without GPS will not be a problem!

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Thanks for all the replies!

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