I would think a traveler  going to Australia would be tipped off that something was wrong amiss when they got reservations for Air Canada. From the Melbourne Herald Sun-

Two Dutch tourists heading to Sydney for a dream Australian holiday mistakenly ended up in a Canadian town of the same name.

Joannes Rutten and his grandson Nick, from Amsterdam, booked their flights through a travel agent.

They only realised an error had been made as they landed in Nova Scotia, on Canada’s southeastern coast, on Saturday, the Cape Breton reports.

The hapless holidaymakers are the third set of tourists in as many years to wind up in the town accidentally.

The Ruttens aren’t alone. A few years ago a Littlerock Washington man who wanted to go to Taiwan and ended up in Taiyuan instead and had to fight his way out of a brothel.

Sydney, Nova Scotia, is 17,000km away from its Australian namesake and has a quieter pace with about 30,000 residents.

Temperatures in the town were a reasonable 16C yesterday, but if the tourists arrived in the heart of winter they could have faced snow storms and -17C.

The Dutch pair’s airline, Air Canada, organised free hotel rooms until they could arrange a flight home.

“We had 24 hours with no sleep … It’s not good, not good,” Mr Rutten Snr told the Cape Breton Post.

Mr. Rutten probably dropped a few notches in the eyes of his grandson. When Nick returns to school he is more than likely to be teased by his classmates because of what happened to him and his grandfather. Then the boy is fifteen years old and maybe he should have noticed something was wrong with his travel arrangements.