Soon after I arrived here I bought a map of the city and then started drawing up my own map on my computer which showed useful places for students living here. I endured ridicule about my map by one of the YLC students who found my blog (you know who are.. :) ) and continued with drawing it until recently when I found Google Earth has an easier and better way to do it. Google Earth lets you put placemarks on satellite images of the world and so I've posted several placemarks on Sana'a. You can download these placemarks by following this
link. Alternatively you can turn on the Google Earth Community layer in Google Earth and you should be able to see my placemarks.
One of the remaining problems however is that streets aren't labelled too well in this city and so generally directions are given in a form similar to: 'travel until you see the white wall and then turn right, go past 4 phone shops and turn left at the red gate and then my house is the 4th blue gate on the left". As you can imagine ambigous directions like these often make finding a location for the first time quite a challenge.
