Met school friend walking round a lake 155 miles from our home town

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In the Summer holidays some 15 years ago, my Mum took my sister and I to Keswick in the Lake District (we had travelled from Chesterfield in Derbyshire). We had been there some days, enjoying a nice holiday and on the particular day in question, had set off to walk around part of the Lake which we hadn't really explored before. After going along some way, we noticed a family coming towards us who looked familiar - the family of one of my good friends from school! Neither she nor I knew that we would be in the Lake District for our holidays and certainly had no idea that our families would decide to walk around Derwent Water at the same time on the same day.
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 15:28:54 +0000Coincidence ID:4125