'I was in Tangiers at a restaurant when I asked the waiter where the bathroom was. He said, "May I see your passport, please?" Surprised, I said that I didn't have it with me. He said, "I'm sorry, but it's a very nice bathroom." Then he, along with everyone else at my table, started laughing hysterically.' (Amelie Cherlin)

'While travelling over the equator in Uganda, our guide had us convinced that there was a man at the line of the equator with two buckets and some water. Supposedly when the man stood on the north side of the line and poured the water from one bucket to the other that the water would flow counter clockwise, and if he stood south of the line the water would flow clockwise. It took us a while to realize that it takes many miles of distance before this change would occur.' (Sue Harvey)

'A Parks Canada employee was laying sod. After a whole day of tourists asking what he was doing, and many making rude remarks about "laying" sod, he got fed up. The next time someone asked what he was doing he told them, "Parks Canada policies require that we disturb the wildlife as little as possible. When the lawns need to be mowed, I cut the grass into strips, take the strips to Parks headquarters and mow them there. Now I'm just putting the mowed strips back."' (Jody Culham)

'A hotel waiter in a Varanasi restaurant told an outrageous lie upon delivering eggs to the table. Even after a somewhat lengthy discussion resulted in his clear understanding that it was "eggs up" we had requested, he said: "You know, this is the way chickens lay this season in northern India."' (Nancy H.)

'My sister, who had been to Amsterdam, told me to look out of the plane on the way in, because Schipol airport is in the shape of a swastika - a hangover from the Nazi invasion during WW2.' (Laurel Papworth)

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