old friends

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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.

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In 1995 we went as a family to work in Ferrol in the North of Spain on a construction contract and became friendly with a local Spanish doctor and his family. After 9 months we returned to the UK and over time lost contact with our Spanish friends. In 2003 we returned to Spain to work in Madrid, where unexpectedly I had to undergo a serious operation. After recovery from that we went as an act of thanksgiving to a remote Shrine in the North of Spain in the foothills of the Pyrenees ( mid-week out of season) and checked into the residence connected to the shrine. As we were waiting to complete our hotel registration who appeared at the reception desk but our Spanish friends. The reason that they had come to this location strangely was as an act of thanksgiving since the doctors wife had undergone a significant operation. During the few days we spent in the residence we were the only 2 families resident there. Some coincidence ?
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Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 14:37:43 +0000Coincidence ID:4085