Who are those rude children?
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About 20 years ago we took our kids on a camping holiday in France, which was to end with a couple of days at a site about a 45 minute drive from EuroDisney, which we planned to visit. My in-laws had booked a mobile home on the site and we were due to rendezvous with them on our return from the Aveyron. We arrived, found the in-laws and were invited in for a cuppa. While mother-in-law was putting the kettle on, she said "Who are those rude children, looking in the window and pulling faces?" We looked and it was our next door neighbour's children from back in Lancashire. They'd just arrived, on their way back from Geneva; they'd happened upon the site and had been allocated the plot next to our in-laws.
Date submitted:Thu, 20 Dec 2012 20:27:32 +0000Coincidence ID:6721
