A man drove six hours across Italy and into Germany before noticing he had left his wife at a petrol station six hours previously.
Macedonian Ljubomir Ivanov only realised his wife Iskra wasn't in the car when he got a call on his mobile from police to say she was still waiting for him at the petrol station near Pesaro, in central Italy.
He said: "I filled up the tank with petrol, paid and then just drove off. I was very tired and not thinking straight. She usually sits in the back seat so I didn't really see she wasn't there, until I got a call when I was already in Germany."
Ivanov immediately drove back to Pesaro to pick up his wife so they could resume their holiday. "I had a lot of apologising to do," he said.
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