Deb in IA
08-05-2002, 12:53 PM
be careful you don't end up in Nova Scotia . . .
Vacation Mix-Up: a Tale of Two Sydneys
Aug. 5
— LONDON (Reuters) - A British couple are getting over the shock of landing on the wrong continent after the tickets they bought for a dream holiday in Sydney took them to a sleepy town in Canada instead of the sun-kissed Australian metropolis.
Emma Dunn and Raoul Sebastian, both 19, booked their tickets from London over the Internet and only realized something was amiss when they were asked to transfer to a small propeller plane in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Andrea Batten, an employee of Air Canada in Sydney, Nova Scotia, took pity on the couple. She told Reuters she was dropping off a friend at the airport when a colleague asked: "Can somebody go to the counter and help these people? They think they're in Sydney, Australia."
"They were obviously very surprised," says Batten, who said she had never heard of such an incident in her 13 years of working there.
The couple are now making the most of the attractions of the industrial town known as "the steel city" -- population 26,083 -- during their unexpected visit.
"They decided they might as well stay for a few days, having come all this way," said Batten. "It's going to be a trip to remember."
Vacation Mix-Up: a Tale of Two Sydneys
Aug. 5
— LONDON (Reuters) - A British couple are getting over the shock of landing on the wrong continent after the tickets they bought for a dream holiday in Sydney took them to a sleepy town in Canada instead of the sun-kissed Australian metropolis.
Emma Dunn and Raoul Sebastian, both 19, booked their tickets from London over the Internet and only realized something was amiss when they were asked to transfer to a small propeller plane in Halifax, Nova Scotia.
Andrea Batten, an employee of Air Canada in Sydney, Nova Scotia, took pity on the couple. She told Reuters she was dropping off a friend at the airport when a colleague asked: "Can somebody go to the counter and help these people? They think they're in Sydney, Australia."
"They were obviously very surprised," says Batten, who said she had never heard of such an incident in her 13 years of working there.
The couple are now making the most of the attractions of the industrial town known as "the steel city" -- population 26,083 -- during their unexpected visit.
"They decided they might as well stay for a few days, having come all this way," said Batten. "It's going to be a trip to remember."