Same Holiday

I was widowed in 1993 aged 55 and 3 years later I started a social club in Cardiff for people on their own in the 50/60 age group. Unbeknown to me there was a similar group in Bath and when they saw an advertisement in the Telegraph about our group, their social secretary, a widower, contacted me with a view to arranging a joint activity. In the course of the telephone conversation with this unknown man trying to arrange a date for our groups to meet, he mentioned that he would be on holiday for 2 weeks in February and I said that was a coincidence as I was going away as well with friends from work. It turned out that we were going on the same holiday, a cruise on the Nile on the same boat! We met at the airport when he came over to our group of 5 women and asked if one of us was called Margaret. We then met again on the boat as he was in the next but one cabin. He sat at out table in th restaurant and we became friends during the holiday and this continued when we got home and our two groups met up for joint skittles matches. 3 years later in 2000 we got married, sold both our houses and bought a new one half way between Bath & Cardiff. We both have a son and a daughter who are all pleased about our coincidence which had such a happy ending.