On a beach at Tossa de Mar, June 1952

My fiance (now my husband) and I were holidaying in Tossa de Mar in June, 1952 when it was a fishing village with only one largish hotel up on the hill, along a single road running along the coast. We were swimming later than usual, when a motorbike went along this coastal road a hundred or so yards away. We were dripping wet, I was wearing an unfetching bathing cap and the riders were head to toe in motorbike gear. At the same time as we were saying, "There's John and Neil" they were saying, "There's Graham and Val"! We had bade farewell to them a few months before as they set off working their way round the world, so, needless to say we had a convivial evening together before they set off again. I have experienced so many coincidences, usually when I have been something different from routine. Graham and I went out to live and work in Jakarta in October, 1979. We had joined the St.George's Society and went to celebrate Trafalgar Day for the first time inoour lives at a Barbecue in a member's home and garden. Ther in the garden we saw someone we had not seen since we were teenagers back home in Ashtead, it turned out thart he was visitting aome else in Jakarta and he and we had sons boarding at the same school in Ashtead. I was home on leave from Jakarta in about 1981 or so and staying in our flat in Leatherhead, Surrey. The car park behind was being resurfaced so I parked in front of the shops. When I came to get in the car, someone came out of a shop who I had seen last in Church in Jakarta when she was visitting from the Children's Home in Solo. She was visitting supporters in a Church in Bookham. By the way, she took Indonesian Nationality so she could stay in Solo to look after the children. Our youngest son went to work in Sydney on a young person's visa and was standing at a b