Yve

I come from a small village called Abbots Langley. I was traveling to Arizona and had to change 'planes in Texas. I struck up a conversation with a man who asked where I came from in England - I told him he probably would not know it as it was so small. When I said the name he knew it instantly as he had been stationed near-by in Bovingdon during WW2. A woman came to sit on the same bench and joined our conversation she asked me the same question and I gave the same reply - she then astounded me by saying she too knew the village as her sister lives a few miles away in St. Albans! I traveled to Tucson and was invited to someones home. I was talking to an ex-pat' who asked where I came from and could not believe when she said she also came from Abbots Langley in fact had lived just a matter of yards from my own home. This all happened in about 1983.