Inter-rail connections
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Summer 1977, I bought an Inter-rail ticket - one months travel on trains in Europe. On the train from Calais to Paris I met an Australian couple on a similar scheme. We went our own ways in Paris and I travelled round France, Italy and Germany. I arrived in Amsterdam about 3 weeks later and went to a small hotel. As I was checking in, a voice behind me said "Hello Malcolm!". It was the Australian couple from the first train journey and they were staying in the same hotel. It turned out they had chosen the hotel from a guide book - the same guide that I had looked at - loaned by a fellow traveller on the train into Amsterdam.
Date submitted:Fri, 21 Jun 2013 21:58:36 +0000Coincidence ID:7078
