Three chance meetings in three European cities in three weeks
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I went travelling round Europe in 1982, and met a guy called Tony in the youth hostel in Heidelberg. I was pleasantly surprised to find that he was a Cambridge graduate student, as I was going up myself the following October.
A week or two later, we were amazed to bump into each other again, quite by chance, in Venice.
When we bumped into each other a third time on the Gare du Nord in Paris, he was so surprised he bought me an ice-cream. All three meetings took place within the space of three weeks.
Of course, we did bump into each again, this time in Darwin College bar the following Autumn.
Date submitted:Sat, 14 Jan 2012 08:37:41 +0000Coincidence ID:3474
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