Misunderstandings - Lost in Translation in New Zealand

New Zealand

My husband and I asked directions to our hotel in rural New Zealand. A passerby told us, 'It's just beyond the station, you can't miss it.' 

We missed it. 

We drove back, found the same man, and asked him to mark it on the map.

'You can't miss it,' he said again.

'But we did. We saw a lot of sheep, but no railway station.'

'There's no railway station. It's just beyond the sheep station.'

'Oh. You call it a sheep station!'

'Yes - what do you call it?'

'In England, trains are in stations, and sheep are on farms. Come on, we have to go, we\re now late for checking into our guesthouse.'

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Angela Lansbury, travel writer and English teacher, tutor and trainer worldwide and online. Active English Language Evaluator at Toastmasters International Zoom meetings. Blog posts on the American continent, Europe, Asia, Australasia, and occasionally South Africa and Africa, Russia and surrounding countries, Cyrillic, and the Middle East including Hebrew, Israel, Arabic and Arabic speaking countries and cultures and restaurants, museums and homes of famous writers and linguists. With a touch of humour. And an eye for the amusing, entertaining and absurd and unusual. Pick up a few foreign words as you read about Angela's travels, and shopping successes and disasters.

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