Bus driver's GPS failure takes ski tour on 750 mile detour to wrong La Plagne

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A bus driver tasked with taking 50 Belgian tourists to a French ski resort got his GPS directions wrong, and made a 750 mile (1,200km) detour, according to Belgian radio.

“There are three entries for La Plagne in France, and I selected the wrong one,” the driver told Studio Brussel radio, the youth channel of publicly owned VRT, which organised the failed holiday.

Rather than head to the Alps, the bus driver took the road leading to La Plagne village in the south of France near Spain, some 400 miles (600 km) southwest of the ski resort.

“We saw the Mediterranean and Carcassonne,” a passenger said on Twitter, referring to a southern town known for its medieval fortress.

Bus driver's GPS failure takes ski tour on 750 mile detour to wrong La Plagne | World news | The Guardian