Best keep this sort of thing away from the Yanks - some of them are quite possibly stupid enough to try this and then sue Google when it all ends in tears...

WRT to that second route - says a lot about the british transport system when google recommends you swim past England and down to France before coming back to London!

"Mommy, I don't want to go to Stockholm!"

"Shut up, son."

"Mommy, I really don't want to go to Stockholm!"

"Shut up, son."

"Mommy, please, I don't want to go to Stockholm!"

"Shut up son, and swim faster."

>says a lot about the british transport system when google

>recommends you swim past England and down to France

>before coming back to London!

Not really. It's simply that trying to swim up the Channel would be foolish and dangerous.

While it appears that Google can cross the Atlantic Ocean, it can't get across the Pacific Ocean. Attempts to go from the mainland to Hawaii are countered with a message: you can't get from here to there (or its equivalent). They should have a few more swimming portals around the world!

I was curious to see if this might work for the Pacific Ocean, but no dice. It won't compute a route from San Francisco, CA to Tokyo, Japan.