You would think that after being here for a bit, I would not get lost anymore in this city. But I do... Like bigly! The standard routes are a piece of cake now, but whenever I get on unknown territory I am capable of running in circles and ending up at the same square as I started without realizing it.
Apart from the city just being full of narrow streets with similar looking houses, the second "challenge" is that the mental translation from what you see on a map to how far it will be to walk keeps going wrong in my brain all the time. I keep expecting it to be further and then I end up hundreds of meters away from the road where I needed to turn. And since I don't want to be the person to walk around with my phone out the whole time, I have been walking back and forth more times than makes sense.
It also doesn't help that there are days like this when you can't tell where the sun is...
Anyway... end of my rant. I found my apartment again so don't worry.