Police once apprehended a man at a train station in Kyjov (Kiyov), Czech Republic. He was reported to be drunk but they only found him terribly confused. Turns out, he was a Ukrainian trying to return to Kyjev (Kyiv) but a cashier in another town misunderstood and showed him the wrong train.
At least that’s the same continent and not literally on the other side of the world.
He only had a 150km detour. You can’t blame him for thinking “Kyjov” is the Czech spelling of “Київ” as he might not even have known the alphabet.
Kyjov is 1000 km from Kyiv.
He started his journey in Zlín, 75 km from Kyjov.
In fact, the detour could be less than double that. The way to get to Kyiv from Czechia is to get on a train to Przemysl, Poland near Ukrainian borders, from where wide-gauge trains to Ukraine are available. From Zlín, a trolleybus or local train will take you 15 km to Otrokovice where direct trains to Przemysl are available. From Kyjov, the easiest way to get to the Przemysl train is 45 minutes on an express to Staré Město u Uherského Hradiště.
…on a good day
Are you suggesting cities migrate?
This old guy gets to Heaven, walks up to the Pearly Gates, and there’s St. Peter, checking the records
St Peter asks: “Nationality?”
-“Ruthenian”
“Place of birth?”
-“Austrian Empire”
“School?”
-Czechoslovakia
“Married in?
-“Hungary” “Children born in?”
-“Third Reich”
“Grandchildren born in?”
-“USSR”
“Died?”
-“Ukraine”
St Peter exclaims: “Well, I must say, you got around a bit!”
Little guy: “Not so much. We never left Mukachevo.”
The whole thing is an advertisement on a baggage carousel in Austria for a company called Commend that offers intercom systems.
Salzburg airport’s website has no mention of a special desk for those trying to reach Australia. If there were 100 errors per year, that would be 1 every 3 days, providing limited need for a desk.
Huh…? Salzburg is pretty small and so is its airport. What route would you have to take that you end up in a small, barely international airport and not realize at your last transfer that you were in the wrong part of the world?
Even funnier the Vienna Hbf has Australian flags ourside and not Autrian ones
It doesn’t. (Hbf is short for Hauptbahnhof, the main station)
Are you telling me they removed them? Cause tgat would be sad I laughed for about 5 minutes when I left the station and saw the Australian flag
Maybe there was some Australia-themed event when you were there but they don’t put foreign flags up as a joke. Was the Australian flag the only flag you saw?
no also New Zealand, Ukraine and EU.
What you’re saying truly disappoints me and I will hate the discount germans even more because of it.
Sounds like you just saw a bunch of flags and had a funny thought, no?
There are much better reasons to hate Austrians than not going for, to be honest, not that great of a joke.
No, its true. I had too much time and used Google Street View:
