the world: places

Like a fellow contributor i also believed that the Elgin Marbles were big and round , but worse still at the age of 36 we travelled to Scotland on Holiday in our camper van. We went to the small town of Elgin, an then i wandered around trying to find where these famous marbles were housed. Eventually the woman at Tourist information informed me that they were in LONDON

when i was 5 i listened to the news on the radio and was tranfixed by the war with turkeys and greese. Boat loads of turkeys were arriving in greese intent on war.i was worried about the messs the turkeys would get into with all that oil on their wings.
when I was much older, I went on a Greek holiday and realised i had got it all wrong,

Ever since I was a baby my parents flew to Guatemala every year for vacation. By the time I was 3 yrs old my parents would always ask, especially in front of family members and friends, "Where is Guatemala?" Well....my response was "Up there!" and point my finger to sky and [i]everyone[/i] would laugh!!! Since the plane always went up I always had this feeling that Guatemala was located on top of a cloud. Yeah...afterward I figured it all out and why everyone laughed at me!

When my family took a trip to NYC my sister even though she was 15 thought the Waldorf was a remembrance site of a small persons activist site in which a dwarf was cemented to a wall as a punishment for rioting.

i used to believe that every street address of every single house represented a different and distinct country

I used to believe that I could dig to China at the beach. For some reason I thought that my plan to dig through how many thousands of miles of rock and burning hot lava would work better if I were 3 inches tall, so I attempted to make a shrinking pition, using milk, crumbled up chocolate chip cookies, and raspberry jam.
What an intelligent child I was.

My sister convinced my niece that there was a bridge that went from California to Hawaii, built out of old sunken battle ships. My niece was in her twenties at the time. Now she's a lawyer. (heheheh)

When we were children, we used to believv that if we dig a deep hole in the ground, we 'll reach CHINA!

When I was about 6 I thought that Sonoma was the last city. That you could go to other cities through one direction, but if you tried to go the other direction, you would walk off of the end of the earth.

When I was a really little kid, I thought that everyone in the U.S. lived in Ohio (where I lived). I knew there were other states, but I thought people just went there for vacation. I never realised that Ohio was way too tiny for those hundreds of millions of people to live...

My father came from a place called "The Heath" in County Laois, Ireland. He used to always tell us we were "Heath Men" which meant we were strong and proud. I always thought he was saying we were "Hate Men" and I would always get angry and smack things when he told us. Curiously, it took him a long time for him to realize what I was hearing.

We rarely went to the beach when I was small. Being by the ocean, I was afraid, that at any time, pirates in an old Spanish type galleon would sail by and harrass the beach goers.

when i first learnt that the world was shaped like a ball i thought that all the people in austraila must have little suction pads that grow on their feet to stop them falling off i was terrified when my uncle moved there because, being born in england, he didn't have suction feet and would obviously fall to his doom as soom as he got off the plane

I lived on the east coast of the US. When I was watching westerns at the movies, I thought the time frame of the story was contempory. I thought if you went "out West", there would be horses, wagons and no automobles and everyone lived like that as in the western movies.

I used to think that you had to fly on a rocket to get to disney land. I thought this because i believed that other countries were in fact other planets, You'd have to travel across space to get there! I really wanted to go to disney land but never though i could because it was too unsafe and Mum didn't like me doing unsafe things!
Imagine my relief when i discovered that there was only one planet that I needed to travel around

After looking at a world map which had Mercator cylindrical projection (the type of maps where the lines of longitude are parallel with each other) in one of my early years in school, I thought that Greenland was more than twice the size as Australia because Greenland is at a high latitude and has been severely stretched out (Australia is actually about three and a half times the size of Greenland). It took me a long time to realise that on those kinds of maps, the distance between the lines of longitude decreases with latitude.