True story, you probably heard of the Swedish couple who drove from Sweden down to Italy using their GPS. Well they wanted to go to the Isle of Capri and see the blue grotto. So they entered the data into their GPS and off they went. Only problem is they ended up in an industrial town near Modena some 600 Km North from where they wanted to go.
On the main Piazza of CARPI,(see photo) they asked someone where the blue grotto was, the fellow thought they meant a restaurant of some kind and could not remember such a name. The Swedish lady said to him, but it is famous all over CAPRI. Suddenly the fellow realized what she meant and said to her you are not on an Island lady this is CARPI. They had misspelled the name of the Island and the GPS took them where they said they were going CARPI. Anyway they made it to the blue grotto in CAPRI. It apparently never occurred to them that they had not crossed water to get to where they were. The blue grotto is famous because of the vivid blue colour of the water and you can only get to it by boat at certain hours of the day.
This bit of news made my day, I laughed.
Now that you mention it,I did think it was odd that I could get to 'Roam' by taking Interstate 70 East..
ReplyDeletelol that was funny. we really trust technology too much to make our lives easier.
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