so..I'm sat on the balcony of my apartment in a small village / hamlet in Spain off the beaten track( ish) having a quite glass of tinto ...I hear a familiar voice , look up and there's one of my best mates waking up the steps towards me ..both flabbergasted that we'd bumped into each other I such a bizarre place , it really is a small world ..
I think any unplanned unexpected meet up will always end up with the words ' Small world ' at some point
No it doesn't. Unbeknownst to many even congi. , theres actually 6 clones of him.(science experiment escape ,long story )the odds are favorable .
A few years ago I flew off to mexico for a nice break...14 hour flight and straight to the bar for cocktails, it was 11am.. all I heard from behind me was 'just you behave young steve or I'll tell your mam when I get home' I look around and one of my mum's mates stood behind me with her arms folded and a face like thunder... fu******** you can't get away from them. .
It's weird when these things happen, bumped into a customer of mine at the Italian grand prix at Monza many years ago, was stood about 10 feet away from @carlot25 at LeMans in a crowd of 200,000, last Saturday my wife mentioned a guy I'd not seen for 12 years then on Sunday he got on a packed train and stood next to me after the England game!
wait a minute ,if you best mates you would have thought you would tell each other where you are going... But I know wha you mean ,I saw my sister in Tesco's down south ,i live in France she lives in Leeds ...
i was camping a few miles away from where he was (unbeknown to us both) his campsite was on a road a lot higher up than ours so he could see us from above - at the time my bay was probably quite recognisable being brown, we could hear shouting (he was shouting from the road) but didn't think anything of it, then a bit later we're outside and walking up to the van is a familiar shape (or hat?) mrs says - is that dave? - it was, so we went to the pub.
Ha ha , neither of us knew , he was over here on a last minute thing ( his partners parents have a place about 20miles from where I am) it was one of the most surreal things - I wish I'd got his reaction on video when he saw me
We met a french couple in Turkey and travelled through Iran with them for a while, we were planning on being in Goa around the same time so we said we'd meet up, the phones didn't work in India so we lost touch and didn't see them again until 12 months later when we pulled up into a small resturant in Guatamala and parked right in front of them, weird.
This happened three times to us now.......in Lanzarote, Malta and once in Africa, bumped into workmates who work at the same place as us! Each time they were staying at the same hotel at the same time. Our workforce isn't that large either!
When I was about 16 me and a mate went on holiday to Sidari, only to see our geography teacher on the other side of the road, we jumped in the bushes complete with the beers we had just bought
So..sat in a bar tonight and got chatting to a couple who had a recogniseable accent - I asked them where they were from and they said Leicester , once we'd got over the bragging about the footy team - they asked Us where we were from as soon as I said where we were from , a woman across the bar said she knew someone near us ....turns out her brother lives next door but one from us
Ive had a bunch ,and i get around , people i ran into again Octoberfest 98 , playa blanca cartagena Colombia 2007 . Very remote . Tivandrum india , my 30th birthday party.., 1996 ,,bali Indonesia around 2002 Bukatingi island ,Sumatra,1995 an elevator 17th street manhattan , around 2000 Soule korea , 1997 a youth hostel in aarhus Denmark 2003 Sydney , 1995 then singapore , 1996. then tokyo . 2001 Same person . Isreali guy La palma canary islands , 2003. subway in Munich, around , 2008. Thats about it , the octoberfest guy , rod mckay from australia , was on the back of my bike Holding on to two crates of beer on beer run, he was looking at me and said . You have a orange bike That was Pretty funny , campfire scene , This is my 30th birthday picture , feb 1997 .south india ,very stoned ,, they bought me a shiva archery set .! Great gift . Just thought id share , was on an (breaking all the time)enfield bullet back then , Nice photo for me I didnt care about a thing . notice the lonely planet road map book . On the bed . I had to correct it many times . Not to accurate ... The one under it is a lonely planet india guide book .wrapped in a union jack cover India,,,,,,, fantastically horrible. Im so glad i traveled in the days before the internet , Sorry for the ramble ...Thats all..
It is a small world! Worked in Crete for 2 years. then went back in UK, Went to work in Turkey 2 years later and met up with a guy i worked with in Crete !!
