From: "Phil Payne" 

My luggage has also landed up in London, Ontario once.

A party of quuatro nuts once set off from England to the Nurburgring.  One
of them went to Nrnburg.

He now has car plates with a small script at the bottom acknowledging his error.

"John Beamish"  wrote in message
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> British humour - oh, okay, humour involving two Brits ...
>
> Same thing happened a couple of years or so ago.  Newlywed British couple
> ended up in Sydney, Nova Scotia instead of Sydney, Australia as intended.
>
> Hey!  Way to go, Google.  On a lark, just before posting I googled: sydney
> australia nova scotia mix-up
>
> First article up:
> http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/uk/2172858.stm
>
> On Mon, 01 Jan 2007 18:02:22 -0500, Adam field.near the bridge">
>  wrote:
>
> > OK so it's humor involving a german...
> >
> > http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/01/01/web_typo_tourist_snafu/
> >
> >
> > "A typing mistake on an online booking form left a German tourist
> > 13,000km off-course on a journey to meet his girlfriend.
> >
> > Tobi Gutt left Germany in high hopes on Saturday, dressed in T-shirt and
> > shorts for the Australian summer, but instead of heading towards Sydney,
> > Australia the 21 year-old ended up en-route to Sidney, Montana.
> > Initially Gutt reasoned that it was possible to fly to Australia via the
> > United States and it was only as he was aboard to board a commuter
> > flight to Sidney, an oil town that's home to around 5,000 people, that
> > the terrible truth dawned on him. Up to that point he's flown to
> > Portland, Oregon and on to Billings, Montana with mounting concern.
> >
> > "I did wonder but I didn't want to say anything," Gutt
told the German
> > newspaper Bild. "I thought to myself, you can fly to Australia via the
> > United States.""
> >
> > Adam
>

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