Bus driver confuses Belgium with France

Looks like somebody got into the Glühwein a bit early!

A satellite navigation error led a bus full of 50 British Christmas shoppers to Lille, Belgium, instead of the city of the same name in France."It was ridiculous," said one passenger. "The coach driver obviously had two Lilles to choose from on his satnav and he picked the wrong one.
"A few of us started to wonder what was going on when we saw signs for Eindhoven, which clearly isn’t in France. But the driver wouldn’t be told - he insisted he knew what he was doing.

The shoppers, from Gloucestershire, England, were forced to spend an extra four hours in the bus as the driver corrected his mistake and had only two hours left for shopping by the time they arrived at their destination in France, The Daily Mail reported Wednesday.

Some of the passengers were demanding the return of their $300-per person payments for the bus trip."It was ridiculous," said one passenger. "The coach driver obviously had two Lilles to choose from his sat-nav and he picked the wrong one. On the return trip the coach driver switched the sat-nav off and ended up having to back track after encountering a bridge that was too low for the vehicle to fit under. We ended up spending more than seven hours on the bus, which is not my idea of a great day trip.""We are all hoping after this debacle that we will have our money refunded because we didn't get what we paid for," the passenger said. STORY HERE