I wonder what would have happened if we hadn’t had mobile phones with us? I guess I would’ve left all of our belongings on the beach and walked to the nearest house (Google maps thinks this is 2.6 miles from the carpark, so I guess at 3 miles from the beach) to call for a coast guard. Unless the nice man with the boat had given me a lift and we’d found ourselves trapped the next morning. I guess we’d have spent quite a while longer on the island than we’d planned…
I read an article in the Guardian earlier this year by someone who had given up using their phone for a week, and had all sorts of trouble. Annoyingly I can’t find it now, but I think the conclusion was that, in order to survive without constant contact with the wider world, you needed to be much better organised. For example, I quite often loose Mr H. in the super market, and have to call him after walking around with an armful of eggs, bread and loose vegetables (he is invariably in the electrical goods or reduced aisles, but moving around them in such a way that I can’t find him…) for 15 minutes.
Mr H. is excited about my phone contract ending so that I can get an N95 and we'll be able to install some GPS sharing software so that we can always tell where each other are. A bit like a police state, but for married couples.
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Sounds 1984 esque, except not, because they didn't have anything that complicated before I was born, I'm even unsure if anything existed. I agree with the lack of phone problems though, due to some crazy Japanese phone related shinanigans, I lost contact with the world for 3 days, and when got my Viewty charged again it turns out that in that time my friends had somehow found a house for me, filled in all the forms AND paid for it, without me knowing. Luckily it's awesome, but somethign much worse could have been happening without my knowledge, not sure how people travel without their phones. Crazy fools.
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