Thank you for your reply anidel. I don't know any italians that well so I'm reluctunt to ask anyone's credit card details just yet maybe I'll start phishing! I will try your second idea though. I dont have much hope though because I am by now convinced that for some reason nokia hate my guts and does not want to sell me the kit.

Giving the title odessey to my experience made me think that poor Odysseas could use a GPS. Who knows, maybe he had one with a pretty amazing POI database!