Majorca and the Isle of Man

In July 1971, when I was 18, I went to Arenal in Majorca from Manchester with two friends for a holiday. We stayed in a hotel called the "Timor". The majority of the other guests were either from Edinburgh or Leicester. My friends and I, all Mancunians, got friendly with the lads from Leicester and even kept in touch when we returned home. In 1973 I went with my Mother to live in the Isle of Man and later that year met my husband. One night (in early 1974) just after we had got engaged, we went for a meal with my brother-in-law and his then fiancee and my newly engaged sister-in-law. Her finacee was still in Scotland at the time but once married would be living in the Isle of Man. My sister-in-law told us of the name she had picked for her new bungalow. "Timoro". I said how odd as I has once stayed in a hotel called the "Timor". To my , and my sister-in-law's surpirse, we were all in the hotel at the same time. She had travelled with a friend from the Isle of Man for the holiday and met her fiancee there, as he was one of the contingent from Edinburgh. Bit of a three way coincedence split!! I have several such stories as many do. Conversation always seems to be a common denominator. Liz