Vacation overlap
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My family was on a vacation to another province, a place about 2000km from where we live. We only had two days there, and we booked our one night's stay at a bed and breakfast out in the countryside, not a large establishment, and quite isolated, because most places closer to the capitol city were already booked up. While there, we found that a good friend of ours from university, whom we hadn't seen in years and who also lived far away, was staying there with her family. Apparently this B&B was a place she used to go with her parents as a child for summer vacations, but she hadn't been there in years and just happened to be there on a nostalgic visit at the same time we were visiting it for the first time. Neither of us remembered her ever mentioning the name of this place during the years we had known her, so I don't think it was influencing my choice of destination.
Date submitted:Wed, 24 Feb 2016 15:54:06 +0000Coincidence ID:8448
