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22/5/2012 at 7:12pm
 Location: Nottingham
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We stayed on holiday years ago in the costa del sol and had a family in the room next door, never really spoke to them but the next year we were staying in menorca and they arrived the day after us!

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22/5/2012 at 7:13pm
 Location: Notts Derbyshire
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We spent a Newyear some years back at great langdale . Got drunk with another group off the site . Then 3 year later in a local restaurant we spent the think I know that guy . He was thinking the same . And both blurted JENGA we'd played Newyears eve before thing got going . To be honest it's a wonder we remembered anything .
Another time in Delhi India we were on the tourist campsite and a guy Chesterfield was staying on site so we had couple of good night drinking and tale telling before going our separate ways . We bumped in to him again 5 year later at a local park .

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22/5/2012 at 9:33pm
 Location: Brough
 Outfit: Cabanon Aruba and Outwell Virgina
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how about this, pitched up got everything sorted sat in my chair with a book, then very soon, all the worries in the world just drifted away.

Next time camping the same happened, and the time after that. So far its happened every time. How coincidental is that?


22/5/2012 at 9:40pm
 Location: Hull East Yorkshire
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We went on holiday to Norway, took the ferry from Newcastle to Kristiansand. After the ship left, we were walking downstairs to the bar when I suddenly blurted out 'Gordon, what are you doing here' It was one of the Branch Directors from OH's place of work!! He was going on to Sweden to see his son.

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22/5/2012 at 10:10pm
 Location: Denmark
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Quote: Originally posted by thehintons on 22/5/2012
how about this, pitched up got everything sorted sat in my chair with a book, then very soon, all the worries in the world just drifted away.

Next time camping the same happened, and the time after that. So far its happened every time. How coincidental is that?




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Proud owner of a 1987 Sprite Alpine 370 EK, a cheap popup tent and a beloved retro Trio frame tent from the early seventies, called Giraffen.


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22/5/2012 at 10:16pm
 Location: North Herts
 Outfit: Monterey4 Cabanon E
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Something similar has happened several times - but not directly on site. Arrived in Tenerife, doing the unpacking, the doorbell goes, only my (now ex)husband's work colleague... On a boat to a Yugoslavian island, got chatting to the couple next to me. Turns out they worked with people I knew from Devon who, coincidentally, got married the same day I did (to the ex above) and whom we met on honeymoon... in Yugoslavia. Then... three years ago, en route to Fouras, we stopped at a picnic/loo area on an autoroute south of Poitiers. A car pulls in behind us. Only someone from the same home town and, who had a car with a registration plate only one letter removed from our old car, same model/make/colour too, which is why we recognised it...all very strange

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23/5/2012 at 7:24am
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Quote: Originally posted by thehintons on 22/5/2012
how about this, pitched up got everything sorted sat in my chair with a book, then very soon, all the worries in the world just drifted away.

Next time camping the same happened, and the time after that. So far its happened every time. How coincidental is that?


This has to be the best coincidence. Very true!!

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2015 Trips

January - Red Squirrel
February - Red Squirrel
March - Gimme Shelter
April - Elie
May - Noah's Ark
May - Riverside, Skipton
May - Blair Castle
June - Braithwaite Bridges
July - The Star
July - Witches Craig
July - Scone
August - Highburn House
September - Gimme Shelter


23/5/2012 at 9:30am
 Location: durham
 Outfit: bailey
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the chaos theory indicates that if you put 20 random people in a room, you will find a number of links between them  

we were in a hotel in Tokyo and met an ex colleague from my wife's work in the lobby after breakfast one morning



23/5/2012 at 10:50am
 Location: Bolton Lancs
 Outfit: Tent & Toyota Granvia
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Not camping but on holiday. A few years ago, after my parents died, I was round at their house one day sorting things out and said hello over the fence to the next-door neighbour who had only recently moved in. I never really saw much of her as she was out at work whenever I was there, however several months later on holiday in Italy with my now-ex, we were sitting at a harbourside bar when along came the next-door neighbour.

Also on holiday in Italy we met and got friendly with a couple from Derby who were in the same hotel, we all had a lot in common and would meet up every evening but never got round to exchanging contact details. The following year my ex and I went back to the same hotel but on a different date, and as we were going down in the lift for our evening meal on the first day he just remarked "I wonder if Ken and Shelagh will be coming here again" - and how surprised were we when the lift door opened on the ground floor and there were Ken and Shelagh, they'd just arrived and were going up to their room which just happened to be right next door to ours!



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23/5/2012 at 1:46pm
 Location: durham
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23/5/2012 at 2:02pm
 Location: Ripley Derbyshire
 Outfit: Karma canvas 5mtr Bell Tent
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I used to work with a lady who decided to leave to go work in the smoke. 4 years later, OH and me went back packing in Oz and Asia. Whilst on a ferry in OZ, in the middle of nowhere (and I mean NOWHERE)I sat down, unbeknown to me the lady I sat next to was the same lady I'd worked with 4 years prior.

Then 2 years later I won a competion to meet a band, and one of the other people who had won was this lady again.

Then, last year on our first camping trip with the family, we camped in the corner of a farmers field where there were no other tents. Lovely and quiet, until someone dediced to pitch next to us... have you guessed yet... it was her again, with her family.

Its a small world!!!


23/5/2012 at 2:27pm
 Location: northamptonshire
 Outfit: Outwell Georgia 5 Vango Icarus 500
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Camping a couple of years ago, one family, who passed our tent to go to the toilets/showers, I kept thinking to myself that they looked slightly familiar, it was our first time at that site. Eventually towards the end of the week I got chatting to them, to see if they lived somewhere near us, but no, the year before that had been at a different site the same time as us, and also then had to pass our tent to get to the facilities at the previous site!



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23/5/2012 at 6:46pm
 Location: surrey
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A couple of months ago someone on the camping abroad forum was asking about the pitches at a campsite in France. Another member posted a few pics he had taken a couple of years back. The first picture was of our tent and car!

Gave me quite a shock to see it. As I scrolled along the pics I spotted DD at the side of our tent in another shot. She was very excited!



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