Originally Posted by Boudicca
Try not to ask car drivers/shopkeepers/random pedestrians for directions. It's always "five minutes" but that's five minutes in a large chunk of metal that takes no extra effort to go up a hill. In fact these guys don't seem to realise that hills exist.
Well, its funny but my experience is the opposite, when I ask for directions to random pedestrians or drivers they will notice Im going by bicycle, then they will try to estimate the actual riding time for me and tell me my destination is soo far away that I should go by bus or something when the actual destination was only 2km away. These of course are the people who think bicycles are toys.