Someone from home in the Amazon
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In July 1972 I was travelling alone in Brazil. I got a passage on a cargo barge carrying jungle rubber and billiard tables travelling from Porto Velho to Manaus on the Rio Madeira, a tributary of the Amazon. There were a few other paying passengers. I struck up a conversation with an elderly Brazilian couple. They asked me where I came from. When I said England they asked which part. When I said Bucks they asked if I knew a town called Princes Risborough. I told them my parents lived in a small village a few miles away, Butlers Cross. They brought out a photo to show me. It was a picture of their son with his English wife and parents in law. They were standing outside a house within walking distance of my parents' house.
Date submitted:Wed, 19 Jun 2013 08:54:43 +0000Coincidence ID:7050
