Given all the dismal news out there about collapse of the world economy I feel I have to post this wildly entertaining news piece on my blog and spread some cheer.
OTTAWA (AFP) - An Argentine tourist got the city name right, but the continent wrong when she booked a vacation to Australia, and found herself in easternmost Canada this week, said local media. (YES DOROTHY, YOU ARE DEFINITELY NOT IN KANSAS ANYMORE.)
Monique Rozanes Torres Aguero of Buenos Aires had wanted to travel to Sydney, Australia, but ended up instead in the former coal and steel mill town of Sydney, Nova Scotia.
The mix-up, due to inattention while booking flights online, became evident when she boarded a small propeller plane in Halifax that would take her on the last leg of her journey.
"She was taking pictures out the airplane window and said to herself, 'Something is not right,'" local resident Christiane Tanner, who befriended the accidental tourist, told the Cape Breton Post. (SERIOUSLY, THE LAST LEG??? DID SHE NOT REALIZE THAT THE SEASON WAS ENTIRELY WRONG BECAUSE SHE WAS IN A DIFFERENT HEMISPHERE? OR YOU KNOW, WHEN SHE WENT THROUGH CANADIAN CUSTOMS IN HALIFAX THEY TOLD HER "WELCOME TO CANADA")
But rather than make a fuss, Torres decided to stay and make the best of her trip. "When things happen, you let them happen," she said through an interpreter.
(I DO APPLAUD BEING SUCH A GOOD SPORT, BUT PERSONALLY, I WOULD FEEL RIPPED IF I ENDED UP IN SYDNEY NOVA SCOTIA (NO OFFENSE TO THE FAIR PROVINCE OF NOVA SCOTIA) AND NOT SYDNEY AUSTRALIA. THE SYDNEY MINING MUSEUM WOULD HAVE A HARD TIME COMPETING WITH SAY THE SYDNEY OPERA HOUSE AND THE GREAT BARRIER REEF.)
Apparently, it is not the first time Canada has welcomed tourists intended for Australia.
In 2002, two Britons also mistakenly landed in Canada's sleepy Sydney, instead of Australia's bustling metropolis, a Cape Breton tourism spokeswoman told AFP. (REALLY?? REALLY??? THEY CAN'T EVEN CLAIM ANY LANGUAGE DIFFICULTIES THERE...WOW)
And Sidney, British Columbia, in westernmost Canada has reportedly received stray tourists too from Germany and Czechoslovakia.
I KNOW I HAVE NOW JINXED MYSELF WITH ALL MY MOCKING, BUT SERIOUSLY PEOPLE, DOUBLE CHECK!!
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