Originally Posted by
Christopher
Oh, well, I was once stopped by a pair of tourists in the City of London, who asked me, "Can you tell me the way to Wales?" I replied, "Well, it's west of here," and before I could get another word in they riposted with, "Can we walk there from here?"
Stephen Wright: "Everywhere is within walking distance if you have the time."
On clueless tourists, my friend once saw a tour group at the Rocks oohing and ahhing over calendars with Australian landscapes, then pass them up after a member of the group pointed out that the calendars wouldn't work in the US "because they'd be off by a day."