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Can I Swim To Britain From the US?

It must be hard to keep a straight face in those tourist information offices with us travelers constantly coming in and asking really stupid questions. In Britain this week they've revealed some of the best clangers from visitors to London and Norwich, and probably even we wouldn't be dumb enough to ask all of these questions. But someone did ask "Is Wales closed during the winter?" and "Are there any lakes in the Lakes District?".

In Norwich, people often call in for help in finding where they've left their car; they've even had a prostitute drop in with brochures to advertise her services to tourists in need. Other tourists who've visited before often want to know the name and location of some nice place they remember: one woman was sure that by identifying a farm she stayed at twenty years earlier as "having a cow outside it" the tourist officers would be able to help her. But our favorite question was actually asked of the helpful tourism reps up in Scotland:

What time of night does the Loch Ness monster surface and who feeds it?

Wouldn't you like to know.

Related Stories:
· Bizarre Questions For City Guides [Norwich News]
· Tourists Ask Strange Questions [Ananova]