This is so stupid..
..it sounds like I made it up, but honestly, hand on my heart, this is true.

Standing on the pier in Great Yarmouth, looking out to the line of grey rocks put out to serve as a tide break for the beach. An American couple (yes, sadly it was them) come up to me, about in their 60s, and the man asks: "Are those the White Cliffs of Dover?"

I am staggered. Don't really know what to say, and managed to blurt out something along the lines of "No, the White Cliffs of Dover are about 300 miles that way, in Dover, and on this side of the sea."
( Loz I'm still here., Tue 11 Jan 2005, 21:38, Reply)