“Two many years afterwards, in 2018, I was strolling down the road in Copenhagen and I stopped dead in my tracks,” Luisa wrote. “There was my Moroccan tour tutorial! We stopped and chatted for a couple of minutes about the serendipity of seeing every other once more countless numbers of miles away.”
In 1998, Catherine Barron and her partner, Earlye — both academics — took their 16-12 months-previous son, Michael, on a vacation to Europe. By the time they bought to Prague, Michael had had ample European restaurant food. He required pizza.
“The concierge at our resort said the best pizza in Prague was in a very little out-of-the-way place down a modest walking street and into an even more compact road that arrived to a useless close,” wrote Catherine, who lives in Fredericksburg, Va. It was a problem to discover, but uncover it they did.
“However, right before we even sat down, we have been termed by a voice we identified — the voice of a fellow trainer,” Catherine wrote. “It turned out that he, his wife and 16-12 months-aged daughter were being also touring, and the mom and dad had heard the exact request: pizza.”
In 1983, Alexandria’s Mary Goldwag and her husband, Ed, took a vacation to China. Although Mary was in the girls area at Beijing’s Summer Palace, Ed chatted with an additional waiting partner.
“When both equally of us women emerged, and we all exchanged names, I found that the other girl was a person I realized,” Mary wrote.
It was her ninth-quality English instructor from Taft Junior Significant in Northeast D.C. “Since then, my instructor experienced graduated legislation school and turn into a judge on the U.S. District Court for the District of Columbia,” Mary wrote. “She afterwards grew to become chief decide.”
In 1994, Norma and Burt Kirschner had been traveling in Israel with their mates Gloria and Fred when one thing in a bookstore window caught Gloria’s eye.
“I want to read that reserve,” Gloria said, working into the retail store.
Wrote Norma: “We followed her in and Fred claimed ‘We have two much more months listed here. Why have that all-around? When we get back again to Silver Spring you can get it.’ ”
A male client in the retail store whipped all around and claimed “Silver Spring, Maryland? I just acquired a residence on Lamberton Generate.”
Norma explained to Gloria: “Isn’t that in which Jan and Len lived?”
It turned out the guy experienced just acquired their close friends Jan and Len’s home.
In 1972, Jim Yenckel boarded a educate in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia, bound for Singapore.
“Tugging my backpack toward my seat I spotted a seated woman whose experience appeared common,” wrote Jim, of the District.
Jim retained strolling, then turned close to for a next look. By then, the lady was on her ft.
“Jeem?” she queried. And then Jim realized.
“She was Valli, the secretary at the English language newspaper in Santiago, Chile, the place I had labored eight a long time previously,” he wrote. “I was often Jeem, not Jim, to her. Like me, she and her close friend ended up discovering Southeast Asia.”
In the summer season of 1973, Annapolis’s Bernie Wulff and his spouse, Louise, took their daughters, Kathleen (then age 7) and Cynthia (then 5), on a six-7 days European holiday vacation. Even though standing on a crowded Paris Metro platform in the vicinity of Notre Dame cathedral, Louise mentioned that their daughters had been the only younger little ones she could location, in advance of incorporating, “Except for that family above there.”
“That loved ones more than there” turned out to be pals from Baltimore with their two younger young children.
On a excursion to Europe decades back, Terry Mitchell ran into multiple people he knew.
“I worked in the Pentagon Press Briefing Area and experienced finished a briefing with a Maritime standard,” wrote Terry, of Alexandria. “The following day I flew out and landed at Schiphol Airport [in Amsterdam] and as I walked down the jet way the standard was standing there. He appeared a little bit startled as I said hello.”
Future halt: Italy. Terry was standing outside the house a store on the Isle of Capri in the pouring rain when a couple ran up to him.
“We employed to journey the bus to the Metro jointly,” Terry wrote.
On the way house from the exact same vacation, Terry was delayed right away at Charles de Gaulle Airport in Paris. As the homebound flight was named for boarding, Terry and a further female stood up. She was a Pentagon correspondent who understood Terry from his job.
“We each said ‘What are you doing in this article?’ to each individual other,” Terry wrote “I should really have acquired a lottery ticket following that vacation.”
Tomorrow: Additional travel coincidences.
