From: esquel@sommarskog.se   
      
   Erland Sommarskog (esquel@sommarskog.se) writes:   
   > And, yes, there are more places that makes the claim to be home of   
   > Santa. And since Patara is in ruins, it has difficult to tell the   
   > others to be quiet.   
   >   
      
   Patara is the place where Saint Nicholaus was born.   
      
   Now here is a funny thing. When looking up Patara on Google Maps, it   
   happened to be as a request to get directions to get from Patara (which   
   is on the south coast of Turkey) to Irktesh-Tam, a small place in   
   eastern Kyrgyzstan, just west of the border to China. No problem,   
   Google said, and gave me a road that I did not study in detail. But   
   I saw that it was a 72 hour drive.   
      
   What's funny with this? The reason this unassuming place was in my   
   Google maps was that I had previously tried find out the distance   
   from Kashgar, as there seemed to be a road leading from Kashgar to   
   Kyrgyzstan. But this time Google had raised the white flag and said   
   "Can't find a road".   
      
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