Getting lost in a foreign country

I now live in a foreign country and even more I don't speak Spanish at first I had some one with me but now I am alone for 2 months to fend for my self till I got a room mate I still to this day don't go out looking and I have been here now 10 months

We had a visitor once who was determined to walk part of the way home to our house because he felt in need of the exercise. It was a 20 minute walk but he never made it. When it began to get dark we went hunting for him but he was nowhere to be seen. Eventually a truck brought him home - he had arrived at a church and was having a drink of water there. He only knew one word in Greek (which is where we live) and that was my husband's surname, so that was all he could say to his rescuer. Fortunately the person who brought him home knew my husband's name and where he lived.

Hi Porcospino If you are confined to a different country, well, I havent been to any country but have traveled extensively here in India and this (finding myself lost) has happened quite a few times with me. The easiest I found was to ask the local people there. Well, I traveled a lot during the early 1990s and as such we had no mobile phones or those GPRS things. And finding a road atlas (map) of each new place was difficult just because we at that time had not much knowledge of the existence of such maps. Today, technology has made it easier at many places. And if you have a good handset and are lucky that the GPRS works, I guess finding a way back would not be much difficult. But the times you mention of... technology fails many such times and makes things more complicated. So I would still vouch asking the locals would always be a better idea.

It's not cool to experience this and i feel so scared when i get lost here in the country.I try not to go alone in the night or some quiet places,a little dangerous to see.So i never happened to meet this and don't hope to see it happen to me.Thank god that your husband found the way back.

Once I got lost in Thailand. My husband was assigned there for a while for work, and I visited him for a month long vacation. While he's at work, I decided to go to a flea market. It's only about 15 minutes walk away frm our villa and I have been there with my husband before. This time, it looks so different because the signs have been moved due to a festival and some stalls were erected which confides me even more. What's even more challenging is the signs are in Thai script and they speak little to none of English. I ended up calling my husband and asking him to pick me up. I just sat on one of the benches there waiting for him.

I never get lost in such a dangerous way. But there were times when I didn't remembered the way back, in my country and also in foreign countries. I remember I was sometimes in a place in Greece. I started to walk on the streets and I didn't managed to return to my hotel. I wasn't alone there, but I didn't had roaming, so I couldn't call my friends. The only major reference point I knew, was the church. I asked some guys where is the church, and they answer me "Do you want to get married so late in the night?". It was kind of late, and I didn't saw anybody else on that marginal streets, besides of them. And they refused to tell me any guidance. It was a little scary... But I walked more and I finally found that church and familiar places.

First of all I would never go to a foreign country alone under any ciccumstances. So thankfully this has or will never happen to me. It is extremely dangerous to visit a foreign country by yourself especially in today's world. When I go shopping with my hubby at the mall and we separate to go do our own shopping when I can't find him I get crazy. I can't imagine being in a foreign country alone and getting lost. I think more men would wonder for a walk alone in a foreign country before a female would alone.

I've never got lost in a foreign country... it would be pretty scary for me, though, because everytime I feel I'm lost, I freak out a bit. I think now it's a bit easier with GPS in cell phones. I never really go alone anywhere in foreign countries, though, because I'm notorious for my lack of orientation :D (even in my home city I go everywhere with a map, just in case :D).