I'm sitting in my new favorite airport lounge - the Virgin lounge in JFK (flying SAA from NYC to Cape Town). I have to say that Virgin really know how to do this pampering luxury thing well. Anyway, this lounge isn't the only thing that has impressed me recently.
One of my clients has recently acquired a very large section of real estate (focus on estate here - a pun for insiders) in mid-town Manhattan. Having spent the better part of the last 6 years in and around New York, I figured that I'd be able to find my way there for an 11am meeting with no problem. As fate would have it also had a colleague (new to Manhattan) in tow so the dent to my pride when we got a little lost (it was only by 100m and I did ask for directions pretty much immediately...) was all the more pronounced. This time Google Maps didn't help.
Well move aside Google, I have discovered (thanks to Mike C - the person I was meeting) HopStop and I'm not looking back. This neat tool calculates the best route from one place in a city to another, using bus, subway, walking etc. A boon for people like me who end up meeting clients and friends scattered across different cities.
Now I just need to find the same thing for London (Streetmap is getting a little outdated and I'm not even going to start on the TfL site!).
