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Belgian tourists taken on 1,200-km detour due to GPS gaffe

A bus driver took 50 Belgian tourists on a 1,200 kilometres detour because he got his GPS directions wrong. The party wanted to go to the Alpine ski resort of La Plagne but were well on their way to another La Plagne, near the Spanish border, when the driver realised his error.

La Plagne BellecΓ΄te
La Plagne BellecΓ΄te Wikimedia Commons
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"There are three entries for La Plagne in France and I selected the wrong one," the driver told Studio Brussel radio, the youth channel of publicly owned VRT, which organised the failed holiday.

He headed for a village in the Pyrenees mountains, 600 kilometres to the south-west of their real destination and did not notice that he had overshot until he met the south-western city of Toulouse.

The party arrived in the Alps 24 hours late.

But they were not all particularly upset.

β€œWe saw the Mediterranean and Carcassonne," a passenger said on Twitter, referring to a southern town known for its mediaeval fortress.
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