Holiday Coincidence

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Family friends from the Auvergne in France were staying with us in Co. Waterford, Ireland. We all went to visit a local attraction, The Mahon Waterfalls, and spent an hour exploring. As we got back into my car Julian, one of our friends, shouted "Bonjour" to some friends from his university class in Clermont Ferrand who had just got out of a mini bus to begin their visit to the falls. Neither knew the other was holidaying in Ireland and just a few seconds later we would have missed seeing these friends from 1100km away
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Date submitted:Sun, 15 Jan 2012 18:45:59 +0000Coincidence ID:4816