OT: Morons book holiday on wrong Continent!

[CarZee]

www.thisislondon.co.uk/dynamic/news/story.html?in_review_id=659658&in_review_text_id=630715

quote:Couple take holiday to wrong Sydney

One is a thriving international centre of business, culture and nightclubbing, the other is a sleepy industrial town where the nightlife is confined to Ceilidh dancing.

It is difficult, then, to imagine how anyone could confuse Sydney, Australia, with Sydney, Nova Scotia. But that is exactly what happened to Emma Nunn and Raoul Christian.

The young couple told today how a booking mix-up led to them spending their holidays amid the duck ponds and steelworks of the Canadian Sydney, rather than on the sunkissed beaches of its antipodean namesake.

Emma, of Sidcup, Kent, and Raoul, of Charlton, both 19, bought their tickets for " Sydney" over the Internet for £740 each. The pair say they did not realise anything was wrong when they boarded an Air Canada plane at Heathrow even though the airline does fly to Australia.

Brilliant..

[Fatboy]

What a pair of muppets - Proves that higher education standards aren't slipping at all

[mel]

It was intended as a break for them after being evicted from the Big Brother house.

[Toffer]

Where did such a pair of numpties get 1500 quid?

Just be happy whilst they were flying aimlessly around the world, they wern't poluting the UK's roads!

[gnomesmith]

They are planning to sue the E-co for selling them the wrong tickets, apparently they thought it normal to go to Oz via America.

Come back Mark Thatcher there is competition for your crown.

[Bodo]

Wasn't there a similar case last year, when a couple confused Granada with Grenada?

planning a trip?
www.cornerstoneword.com/wbrn/geo/geo.htm

[gnomesmith]

quote:
Wasn't there a similar case last year, when a couple confused Granada with Grenada?

And ended up with a Scorpio.

[JMorgan]

They must be in IT