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News.com.au reports that Australian travel agents were asked to list some of the strangest questions asked by tourists.

Here are some of the classics:

+ Can I catch a train from Fiji to New Zealand?

+ What type of car is needed to drive from the Great Barrier Reef to Perth?

+ “I’m doing a crossword at the moment and need your help. What is the name of that really tall building in the Gold Coast?”

+  “Why are Australian stop signs shaped like hexagons?”

+ “How many cartons of cigarettes can we take on our driving holiday to Queensland?”

+ “What passport would I need to visit Melbourne from Queensland?”

+ “I know it’s a long flight but how is it that I take off at 10am in Sydney and land at 10am in Vancouver on the same day? How is that possible?”

+ “Can you get Australian money out of ATMs overseas?”

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Name Jason Cochran
Who? He was awarded Guide Book of the Year by the North American Travel Journalists Association for Pauline Frommer’s London. He is a regular writer for the New York Post, AOL’s WalletPop.com, and Travel + Leisure.com.  He has also written for Budget Travel (as senior editor), New York Daily News, New York Times, Travel + Leisure, Newsweek, Frommers.com,  Arena (U.K.), Who (Australia), and Scanorama (Sweden).   As a commentator, he has appeared on CNN, Australia.com, WOR, Outdoor Life Network, MSNBC.com, and many radio programs.  He spent nearly two years backpacking solo around the world and now lives in NYC.
Age 37
Countries Visited 55

Titanic Nominations
Worst Metro Glasgow Underground. Tiny as a dollhouse, loud as a jet, and it only goes around in a circle.
Worst Airline Policy Charging for water. You can’t take your own through security, yet SAS, Ryanair, and countless others charge €3 for it. Pure trap-and-gouge.
Worlst Flies Australia’s Northern Territory. They’ll literally drink the water off your eyeballs.
Worst Maps Tokyo. You need an engineer’s degree to find the washroom in some malls. Out on the street, addresses are nonexistent.
Worst Street Crime Johannesburg. At the hostels, they don’t gather at night to talk about what they saw that day. They discuss who got mugged.

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