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Sep02
What's in a name?
I remember travelling on a train in northern Germany many years ago and stopping at a station called Friedegg - perfectly normal to the locals, but a breakfast fried egg to me!
Hell, near Trondheim in Norway, makes the most of its name. One can buy postcards with lurid red sunsets as a background to the freight depot - in Norwegian, Godsekspedition! There's a place near Bergen called Paradis: this used to be on the railway too so one could buy a ticket from Hell to Paradis!
The airport at Sioux Gateway in Iowa was not best pleased to be offered the 3-letter IATA code SUX. Since the best alternative was GAY, they made the best of a bad job and stayed with SUX - look at their website www.flysux.com for memorabilia.
I was also amused to see airports called Batman, Moron, Ogle and Eek; and I understand that Mafia Airport is in Tanzania!
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