meeting in the tower

In the summer of 1989 I got a new job working for the WEA (Workers' Educational Association) as a Tutor Organiser. The departing Tutor Organiser was part of the interview panel and I already knew him a little through my old job. That summer I went with my husband and children to the Dordogne in France on holiday and we decided to explore a castle in one of the towns. As we climbed the medieval spiral stone steps of one of the towers we met the Tutor Organiser and his wife coming down and we met in the middle. We were rather loud in our greetings and sharing the hilarity of the meeting and were asked to leave the tower! We went and had ice creams in the grounds. Neither of us had shared holiday plans and so it felt like a total coincidence. The other thing I found out in that conversation - which is less of a coincidence but struck me at the time - was that at that time he was the only person of my acquaintance who had watched every episode of Twin Peaks which had recently shown.