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<p><a href="http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100707/utravel/oops_wrong_sydney" target="_blank">http://ca.news.yahoo.com/s/capress/100707/utravel/oops_wrong_sydney</a><span style="display:none;"> </span></p><p> </p><h1>Italian travellers end up on wrong continent</h1><p></p><div id="user_ynmain"><div id="user_storybody"><div class="storyhdr"><div class="mod-top-msg" id="user_mod-top-msg-id" style="display:none;"><div class="mod-content"><div class="hd"> </div><div class="bd" id="user_mod-top-msg-bd-id"><p>Module body</p></div><div class="ft"><div class="ft-content"> </div></div></div></div><p> </p></div><div class="lrec"><table border="0" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="ad_slug_table"><tbody><tr><td><span style="display:none;"> </span></td></tr></tbody></table></div><p>SYDNEY, N.S. - It's happened again: travellers from another continent arriving in Sydney, N.S., when they're supposed to be in Sydney, Australia.</p><p> </p><p>Valerio Torresi, 26, and Serena Tavoloni, 25, of Italy landed in the Cape Breton city Tuesday night when they thought they had booked tickets for Down Under.</p><p> </p><p>"I think it was a joke, then fear," Torresi said Wednesday night when asked about his reaction to learning they were in Canada, not Australia.</p><p> </p><p>The couple's travel agency in Italy made the error and the couple spent the day trying to correct it, and to see the sights with the help of an Italian-speaking resident to translate.</p><p> </p><p>A local restaurant gave the couple their first-ever lobster dinner and they were given a free room at a Day's Inn.</p><p> </p><p>Torresi said they have been overwhelmed by the hospitality and warmth of the people.<span style="display:none;"> </span></p></div></div><p> </p><p> </p><p><strong><em><span style="font-size:16px;">I have been to both Sydneys... no kangaroos in either one.
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