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Subject: Re: A costly misspelling Posted on: Wed, 12 Mar 2008 11:24:07 GMT

On Tue, 11 Mar 2008 12:29:32 +0000, Markku Grönroos wrote
(in article ):

> A German had a plan to drive to Puttgarden, board a ferry to Rödby and then
> drive further in Denmark. She marked a place called Putgarten as a
> destination on her GPS-plotter. Putgarten is in the Northern shores of Rugen
> 143 km away from Puttgarden in East. Roadwise the distance is at least 350
> kilometers. She was reportedly angry. Angry to herself.......? I just
> wonder - she is a German and she didn't realize that something is wrong
> until in Putgarten. What a jerk! Perhaps she decided to drive to Sassnitz to
> catch a ferry to Trelleborg Sweden instead.
>

We met someone on holiday a few years ago who was contemplating a trip to the
Faroe islands. She was under the impression they were somewhere near Egypt
(to do with the Pharaohs).

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Mike Lane (UK North Yorkshire)
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