ROUND-THE- WORLD MEETING

I travelled round the world in 1979 and was staying with my aunt and uncle in Amberley, South Island, New Zealand . Whilst out shopping with my aunt one day, we met her best friend who told me her son was on his way back from 2 years travelling around the world. She wasn't sure where he was or when he would get home. I left N.Z Australia about 6 weeks later, spent 9 months in Oz, then joined an overland double decker bus trip which would travel (with a couple of flights and change of buses) back to England - nine months in all. We travelled across the across the Nullabor Plain (Oz), through Indonesia, Malaysia and into Thailand where we stayed at a moderate hotel. On Christmas Eve, by the swimming pool, myself and a couple of friends met 2 New Zealand guys. I got talking to one of them and mentioned that I had relatives on the South Island, and asked where he came from. "You wouldn't know, it's such a small place", he said. When he told me, I told him that I had relatives there. He asked their names and said "your aunt is my mother's best friend!". I couldn't believe that I had actually met her best friend's son by chance at a swimming pool in Bangkok!! Coincidence or what?