A letter

I lived in Stockholm with my family from 1987 until 1990. While there we made friends with an Australian couple, Gill and Rod, who returned to Sydney just before we returned to the UK. My husband worked for Unilever, and before we left, a colleague who lived in Sydney, called to say that his son had been working in Gotland, an island off the coast of Sweden and was leaving to travel around Europe. He asked if his son, Scott could bring most of his belongings to our house in Stockholm for us to take back to England and store them for him while he travelled.This we did, and over the next year and a half Scott would arrive at our house in Northamptonshire stay for a while and then carry on with his travels. Gill and I stayed in touch and corresponded regularly. She wrote a letter to me one day, and had been invited out for lunch with some friends who had moved to a part of Sydney that she didn't know. By chance, she took the letter with her to post and stopped at a post office somewhere on the way. She handed the letter over the counter to the post mistress who looked at it in amazement and then said, "I know this place". "Northamptonshire?" Gill asked. "No", the post mistress said, "34 Main Street, Denton, Northamptonshire, and Carol Darling who lives there, my son stays with the Darlings, he has left his belongings with them while travelling." Neither of them could quite believe it, and Gill was rather late for lunch! They exchanged addresses and became good friends. My husband was sent to Sydney on business the following year and all three families met up for a weekend. We are still in touch with all of them. I hope that you find this interesting, Carol