Crossraods

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understandinguncertainty.org was produced by the Winton programme for the public understanding of risk based in the Statistical Laboratory in the University of Cambridge. The aim was to help improve the way that uncertainty and risk are discussed in society, and show how probability and statistics can be both useful and entertaining.

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As a student, I booked into the Youth Hostel at Kolding, in Denmark, late one afternoon. There were no other hostelers there, so I checked in, and flipped back through the diary they kept for comments - the day before, two friends of mine from Brittany whom I had got to know when they were students in Wales had signed in for one night, and had a strongly worded entry about how Brittany was NOT France! Later, a Swiss student arrived, and it turned out that he knew a pen-pal of mine who lived on Fair Isle. Later, an Ethiopian student arrived - he was on a trip anti-clockwise around the Baltic. We were all flabbergasted when later that evening, another Ethiopian student arrived. This fellow was from the same village as the other, and was also doing a round the Baltic trip, but clockwise. Neither knew the other was in Europe. This must have made Kolding the crossroads of the world, not just of Denmark!
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Date submitted:Tue, 31 Jan 2012 14:10:07 +0000Coincidence ID:5910