From: "John Beamish" 

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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