And try it in the reverse direction - Cork to Canso gives an interesting
pattern!
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Subject: Re: New interest in swimming at Boston: likely congestion at
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Yes, Andrew and its wrong!!
If swimming to Paris is involved, you'd cut off a week by travelling
by land to Canso, Cape Breton, Nova Scotia (landward site of the
first transatlantic underwater cable station)! The closest point on
the N. American mainland to Europe.
http://ns1763.ca/guysbco/cableparkmunic.html
BUT Google is fixated that you can only swim the Atlantic from Long
Wharf, Boston! Check out Canso to Paris! I believe all N. American
inter-continental Googlemap directional traffic is routed through
swims commencing in Boston (must be the quality of the tea?)
iain T. (who finds NS seawater a tad chilly at this time of the year
- when in an April Nor'easter to boot!)
At 8:10 AM +0100 4/25/07, Cook, Andrew wrote:
>Excusez-moi si je dis une betise, but has anyone else noticed this?
>
>1. go to www.google.com<http://www.google.com/>
>2. click on "Maps"
>3. click on "Get directions"
>4. type "New York" [ or anywhere in North America] in the first box (the
>"from" box)
>5. type "London" in the second box (the "to" box)
>6. click on "Get directions" at the end of that line
>7. keep scrolling down the numbered directions
>
>Remember to come up speaking French.
>
>Andrew S Cook MA PhD FRHistS FRSA
>Map Archivist, India Office Records
>The British Library
>96 Euston Road
>London NW1 2DB
>+44 20 7412 7828
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