Swim!

Turcopolier joins the list of those who is amused by Google’s instructions on going from New York to London (swim!), The bit has been floating around for at least the last few days now, but nobody to my knowledge has answered the three basic questions:

1. Why is it there? Is this the work of a mischief-making infant that somehow slipped under the radar? Or do we have a company policy of harmless merriment?

2. Why do they keep sending us to France?

3. Why can't they find Istanbul?