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Google map your way to Stockholm

Try it yourself. Go to Google Maps and enter a location in North America, and a destination in Europe. Your resulting driving driections will include a brisk swim across the north Atlantic ocean. And, you thought you were going to be bored over spring break!
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martin said 2:19AM on 3-30-2007
After a bit of experimentation (I tried with Quebec, New York, Chicago, Miami on the US side, and Belfast, London, Madrid, Rome on the European side), I found you always get told
- Turn right at Long Wharf
- Swim across the Atlantic Ocean
- Slight right at E05
- At the roundabout, take the 2nd exit onto E05/Pont Vauban
What's significant about these places ?
Long Wharf is Aquarium Station, Boston massachusetts
E05 is Le havre, France
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TAF said 9:47AM on 3-30-2007
Seems that Google must have uncovered some secret passageway for swiming... some undiscovered current?
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RP said 1:11PM on 3-30-2007
Those Google guys are funny.
But 29 days of swimming at 5 mph -- brutal! Better be in good shape!
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