Lille Error, Wrong Border

Are You Sure We're In France?

Fifty British shoppers taking a coach trip to Lille in France ended up 100 miles away in Belgium in a tiny village of the same name, thanks to a blunder on the driver's satellite-navigation device. Furious trippers spent an extra four hours on the bus as the red-faced driver drove from the middle of Belgium to the French spot first intended. The day trippers paid nearly $400 each for the Christmas trip, but got fewer than two hours' shopping time.

FOOTNOTE: Big blunder, but at least they're not Down Under.

 

Hurry Potter

France Puts Boy Wizard On Postage Stamps

The French have Harry Potter licked – literally. According to CBSNews.com, French mail service La Poste is celebrating Harry Potter and friends with a set of stamps and stationery. Starting this weekend, the bespectacled schoolboy wizard appears on stamps for domestic priority mail. Ron Weasley appears on stamps for slow domestic mail, and Hermione Granger appears on stamps for international mail. France isn't the first country to put Harry Potter on a stamp. Australia, the Isle of Man and Taiwan, have already issued stamps honouring the hero of J.K. Rowling's books.The seventh and final instalment in the series, `Harry Potter and the Deathly Hallows’, which tells the story of Harry during his final year at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry, will be published on July 21.