A coachload of schoolchildren was taken 80 miles in the wrong direction in the middle of the night after a driver misspelt their destination by just one letter.
The driver accidentally typed Towyn into his satellite navigation system, then promptly drove to the village near the seaside resort of Rhyl in north Wales.
Unfortunately, his sleepy passengers had hoped to wake up in Tywyn, near Cardigan Bay in west Wales.
The blunder occurred when the coach swapped drivers at Shrewsbury towards the end of a 13-hour journey following a trip to Paris.
Parents of the 37 pupils aged 11 to 14, from Ysgol Uwchradd Tywyn, were left waiting to collect their children for an extra two hours on Tuesday morning.
Sue Williams, whose daughter Sian was on the coach, said: ‘The teachers and the kids all fell asleep on the bus and when they woke up they realised they were going a different way to what they normally know.’
GPS yn Cymraeg
GPS yn Cymraeg
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Re: GPS yn Cymraeg
The driver should have looked at a compass. Don't GPS systems have a compass in them also? I don't have a GPS