meeting acquaintances on holiday

This has happened four times to our family. Walking back into Florence city, having visited a well-known market on the outskirts, our elder daughter noticed her Design Technology teacher on the corner of the street. She had a short conversation with her. Another occasion, eating at a pizzeria outside on the terrasse in Duras in France, the same daughter saw a school acquaintance walk up the street and duly caught up with her to talk briefly. Third time, my husband and I were walking in the square in Sonoma, California and someone called my husband's name. When we turned around, we recognised the man as a friend of my brother who lives in Quebec. The friend had been to a wedding in Sonoma. The fourth occasion, we met a former village resident by an English bookstall at Issigeac market in France. On Saturday evening our older daughter(again!) saw our neighbour in the row in front at a theatre in London. On many occasions I have been about to ring my mother or Aunt and they have rung me. We have put this down to a sort of family 'telepathy'. I do not share this 'telepathy' with my husband. I have often remarked on the similarities of birthdays within families and wondered (not being a gynaecologist/obstetrician) whether certain family members might share the same good period of fertility and therefore be more likely to conceive at the same time as other family members. My older daughter was born the day before my birthday. Numerous instances of close birthday dates in our family and amongst friends. My husband and I, although from very different backgrounds and different parts of England and being three and a half years different in age, discovered that throughout our lives before we met, have often been at the same place at the same time, places as diverse as Chiswick, the London Palladium, Birmingham University and Argeles -sur- Mer in France. I find this whole subject fascinating and I hope this may be of use to you. If I can be of further assistance, please contact me. Susanne