Meeting someone in the middle of nowhere

I come from Appletreewick in a fairly quiet and remote part of the Yorkshire Dales (population 234). I went on my own on a driving/walking holiday to Ireland in the Wicklow hills a few years ago. I had hardly spoken to anyone for days, and was in one of the most remote parts of the hills and decided to stop for the evening at a B&B. It was quite late, and so was recommended to go to a pub for dinner. It was one of those pubs which looks like someone's sitting room. There was only one person sitting in the corner of the pub for the whole evening. After a while we got talking and I found he was the gamekeeper from Appletreewick who had come to stay with his pal who ran a shoot in Ireland! In a way, easily connectable really, but still I thought it was amazing that I had come all this way and the only person I met was from Appletreewick!