FRENCH DISCOVER NORTH POOLE
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We've all done it...you get off the ferry at a foreign port, still a bit bleary-eyed from your cross-Channel snooze, and take a wrong turning. Which is exactly what happened to a French trucker after he landed at Dover.
Instead of turning left and heading for Poole in Dorset, he went north to Poolein-Wharfedale, West Yorkshire, which is about 240 miles In the wrong direction.
The hapless driver only discovered his mistake when he stopped to ask some local people for directions to an estate which didn't exist.
"We showed him on a map how far off the track he was," says shopkeeper Alan Wilkinson. "You had to feel sorry for him. He took it very well."
I suspect there was a few Gallic curses aimed at ze Ingleesh and zere funny leetle place names—always assuming his phrase book included enough of the Yorkshire patois for him to know what they were talking about, ba gumm.