old friend meeting

I was in a garden centre cafe just before Christmas, with a neighbour, having a coffee. A couple stood up from their table and turned towards us upon which my neighbour recognised one of them as a friend of a friend whom she hadn't seen for a few of months. My neighbour and I then started talking about meeting friends in unusual places. I told her of two stories one when my husband met and old law school friend at the top of a glacier on a skiing holiday having not seen this person for about 8 or 9 years and then when I met a friend from a camera club that I had been a member of (and left some 4 years prior to the meeting) in a funicular railway going up to the Les Deux Alpes glacier on a summer holiday ( he was on a walking holiday and we were on a summer ski holiday) As I was telling my neighbour this story a group of cyclists came into the cafe and sat down with drinks. I looked across and thought I recognised one of them. I asked my neighbour to take a look to see if she recognised him, but she didn't. It then dawned on me who it was, it was the gentleman from the camera club that I have not 5 minutes before, told the story off, meeting in a funicular railway. Seven years later I meet him again !