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    Comedy Geospatial Appreciation

    Would you really trust Forbes Traveller to tell you the best places to go on the planet? Is it any wonder so many hapless tourists end up on a cramped coach to ‘do England’ over a long weekend. This image was grabbed from Forbes own travel website this evening and there are at least 3 problems with it. Can you see what they are?

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    Comment from Ceri Davies
    Time: August 12, 2007, 7:09 am

    Uh, they think Shakespeare is a country, Bath is near to some planet named Cotsworld (or maybe that’s a baby shop), and Wales doesn’t have a border?

    Comment from breadedcod
    Time: August 12, 2007, 10:25 am

    lol. I hadn’t picked up on Cotsworld. There’s still something else.

    Comment from Gordon Rae
    Time: August 13, 2007, 12:01 am

    The Lake District is where? Glastonbury or Taunton?

    Comment from breadedcod
    Time: August 13, 2007, 6:06 pm

    …and then there’s the recent volcanic activity mapped out in the appearence of a new archipelago in the North Sea which, remarkably, seems to share a distinct similarity with the England / Scotland border.

    Comment from Ceri Davies
    Time: August 19, 2007, 9:53 pm

    I thought that was a vapour trail…

    Comment from Dick Davies
    Time: October 11, 2007, 2:32 pm

    NESSIE!