places

As kids, when we used to ask ourdad where we would be going on our summer holidays, he would say "Ourgate" We believed that "Ourgate" was a place, in fact it was our garden gate - meaning we wern't having a holiday at all!

Anon

when i was about 4 or 5 i ALWAYS thought that the world was just my little town callled stone. i believed this for years untill i learnt otherwise.

Gummie

I used to think that in every country there was an exact copy of you but they spoke another language…… I used to think that my copy person would get washed up on a beach and id be able to talk to her ;)

moi

My dad used to tell me that there was always, (come rain or shine) a loan piper standing at Scotch Corner. And he'd played the pipes to tell you you'd got as far as Scotland. And this was true because my dad said so!

Suzie

When I was about 6 I used to believe that, when the berlin wall came down, that there was a wall seperating west virginia from (east) virginia because they had been in a civil war.

serena

When I was quite young I got really interested in studying my dad's Atlas. I thought that the British Isles were Australia & New Zeland because they were the shape of a kangaroo and a koala bear.

Claire

I believed for a long time that the world was the shape of Great Britain and that all the other places I'd heard about were somewhere in Great Britain. I blame the BBC weather map for this :o)

Claire UK

Because we used to get TV programmes and Text books from the US, my friend thought that by driving north of the North Island of NZ you would end up in America.

Anon

I used to believe that we lived inside of the world. I asked my Dad who lived on the outside of the world.

Pauline

After amny years of hearing you can dig a whole to China. I thought that all countries were on top of each other.
China, New Zealand, Australia, America and so on and that the planes flew straight up. And of course I thought it was all flat......

Bridget Collins

When I was little,I used to believe that if I dug deep enough into the ground that the hole would come out in China.

Sue.

I used to belive that Switzerland was at the centre of the world, (because it had the highest moutains, of course!), that all the countries were packed around it, with England on the edge, which of course led to the Atlantic Ocean - the biggest ocean in the world!

Jon

When I was young I thought Canada was a city. I used to ask my mother if we could visit Canada, even though I was living in it.

Lori

I used to believe that if u dig a hole in the dirt that you would come out in China

Angela

I remember believing that when you were flying that the borders of states and the states names would be visible from the air - just like it looks on a map.

Swoop74

I remember as a small child I used to beleive that England was the whole world. I remember my brother looking at me bemused when I asked what that bit on the bottom of the map of England was.

Nicola