Meeting someone from the same area, many miles away
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My son Ross was travelling in Australia in either the Autumn of 2001 or 2002. In one town he was in a bar with his girlfriend, they started chatting with an Australian couple. But in fact they had emigrated many years earlier from England. Ross asked where "North London" they replied. Pressed for more information they replied "Enfield" This is where my family and my children were born and I still live just up the road in Edmonton. Ross then asked whereabouts in Enfield and they told him Carterhatch Road, this was the the next turning up from my childhood home!
What a coincidence.
I had a similar experience in 1980. I was on holiday in Newquay with my husband. One day we hired a tandem and went cycling. We stopped for lunch on a beach along the coastline. A short time later a young couple strolled past. She was the Saturday girl from the shoeshop that I worked in. I knew she was also holidaying in Cornwall, but what were the odds?
Date submitted:Thu, 24 May 2012 21:13:12 +0000Coincidence ID:6396
