GREEK HOLIDAY
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My brother & his girlfriend went on holidays to Greece. A week later I got a late offer of a cheap flight to Corfu,which I took up and flew to Corfu with a friend a few days later. After a few days in Corfu ,we took a flight to Athens where we stayed for a few days.We then took a ferry to IOS, an island in the Aegean. On the first night in the local town,we walked down the main street and just happened to look into a bar as we were passing, where we saw a woman reach down to get her handbag.She looked a bit like my brothers girlfriend .We went in, and it was her! together with my brother.We made no arrangements to meet,they did not know I was on holidays,much less in Greece. I had first flown to Corfu in the north of Greece ,had flown on to Athens on a whim, and equally went on to IOS on a whim. They were about to leave the bar,thats why she was reaching down to get her handbag, had we passed there 5 minutes later they would have moved on to somewhere else.
Date submitted:Tue, 18 Jun 2013 09:16:54 +0000Coincidence ID:6983
