I once went on a blind date and the woman who met me was my wife!!! Only joking!

Years ago when I was still at school I bumped into my maths teaches in a campsite in France! Also my sister was in a little village pub somewhere in Ireland and my auntie and uncle who live about a mile away from us in coventry walked in!

We use to live in a little village in the Peak District that was the subject of a lot of paintings. On holiday in Fuerterventura we ventured into a little bar and noticed pictures of our village and others close by. The barman/owner then proceeded to tell us he use to live nearby and his best friend happened to be one of my husbands golfing gang .. what a small world !!!!

We were having a meal at a little chinese restaurant at the edge of the sea in Majorca. I happened to turn round and saw a couple in the distance that looked like people we knew from the next village. I told hubby, and he said not to be so daft. As they came closer I could see that it really was them. We used to often meet people in the airport that we knew.

In 1989 I had been on a touring holiday in Eygpt which ended with 4 days in Sharm El Sheikh, on my last morning there I went down to breakfast and who should be sitting at the next table but my neighbours.
I live on a small cul-de-sac with just 6 houses, the neighbours were the ones who live directly opposite, their front door being about 15yards from mine.

A few years back we were in the Vendee and a British bloke heard us talking in French and asked if we could help him with some translation about something he was interested in. I immediatly picked up his Brummie accent and asked him where abouts he was from (I am a Brummie). He lived in the area where I teach. Turns out his daughters were pupils at my school and his eldest one was in my tutor group. When his wife came over I recognised her, I had never met him before. His kids ran off and hid in embarrassment!

A couple of years ago we did a tour and cruise to the Canadian Rockies and Alaska. There were about 40 people in the group and one day we got talking to a couple from Hull. I know one person who lives in Hull says I. Turns out he is their next door neighbour!

About 20 years ago in Cala Bona we were out drinking with friends. We went into this little bar near the harbour. We had been in there a while and I looked up and on the wall in with all the other photos and paintings was a small black and white photograph of my old school. I asked at the bar and the owner was fetched, we had been at school together in the 60s!

We are ex-Brummies too, Hi de hi, (West Heath, Longbridge way), but moved down south years ago.

On every holiday we've ever been on, we've got chatting to someone we either know, or lives nearby.

On the last day of the holiday in Goa, we were sat around the pool with a couple who had just arrived.
It turns out we were in the same class in Primary school in Birmingham!!

I work in West heath/Longbridge. I won't say the name but it is a Girls School, there is only the one round there.

2 years in a row at 2 different holiday destinations I met a teacher frommy school, though I wasn't in any of his classes.

Helen

I know Lerryn pandy . It's close to lostwithiel. Stayed at Tredethick farm cottages one summer . We strolled into Lerryn one morning . Beautiful little creekside village. remember helping a guy and his son in a yard load up a canoe they had made or repaired .

Yep small world

i too know lerryn.... stepping stones and feeding the ducks my parents live near by.

Mine wasnt a good coincidence, when we went to dubai while queuing to check in we saw my partners ex, i stole him off her in my teens.........

Also in turkey last year, we met a couple and they new my mum and dad, and remembered me from when i was a toddler. He was in the navy with my dad. We got chatting on the first night and throughout the week we discovered this, and that when i was two i had thrown up all over the couple in italy. Nice.

Been to Lerryn a few times, we live in Delabole.
Several years ago we were on a round the island boat trip in Malta and a couple from our village were on the same trip, second time we were in Malta and got talking to this chap and it turned out he was born in Delabole (actually lived in Lostwithiel I think). We were in Menorca and met another couple from just up the road then a few years later we were walking along a beach in Zante and met the same couple! We went to Lanzorote about ten years ago and met a friends son who was there on his honeymoon. We met another couple from our village as we strolling along a road in Corfu, I think there maybe one or two other instance's but I can't think of them at the moment.
It certainly is a very small world!

1983/84 met a bloke who lived 100 yards from us on a remote mountain pass in Italy, he was doing the same tour as us but in the opposite direction.

2001 walked into our hotel restaurant and met a couple who we know very well from our local.

Small world, thank god I was with the wife.

Dave

I used to go to primary school with a lad, he was in the year above me. Years ago, we were strolling around Benidorm and happened to see them, we planned to meet up later and have a drink together.
Few years down the line, we're back in Benidorm and just so happen to see them again! We hadn't planned it and neither families knew the other were going away.

Even funnier, turns out a few years later that I'd move into the house next door to them. Can't get rid of me!

Small world, thank god I was with the wife.

So you'll have a lot of empathy with the work colleague of my then boyfriend whom we met with a woman that he swiftly introduced as his 'wife' - except this wasn't the 'wife' who'd accompanied him to the last office social event! We were never sure which one - if either - was the real 'wife' after that! We kept shtum but had a good chuckle later.

SM

Few years ago my parents went to Australia for 3 months, the had taken a train across the desert for 3 days to a very remote area,, one tree, and a lake,,,and a hotel and a few shops,,,,,,, they were down by the lake one evening talking about where Robbie Williams was from ( we live in Stoke), mum said Trentham, Dad says Tunstall,,,,,,,, a lady walked up to them and said its actually Tunstall cos thats where we are from!!!

all those miles away and you meet someone from your home town!

When my daughter got married in the Seychelles she didnt know we were going so when I met a couple on the plane and told them we were going to surprise her they asked which hotel she was staying at.It turned out to be the same hotel where they were staying so I asked them not to say anything if they spoke to a couple about to be married!
It turned out she saw the wedding on the TV in the hotel and recognised us. They then went to Bird Island which is quite remote and got chatting to a couple who had been to their sons wedding in Male.
It turned out to be my son-in-laws parents.

I got talking on another web site, trying to find out who would be on my flight

Now one person replied, and both of us from Glasgow, now with some more information coming out, we now find that we both from the same city, and probably know each other to see

Now day of flight, I arrive at 6 am and check-in, usual go through departures, look at everyone and think, is it you

Now I board the planne, and taker my seat, when this couple sit next to me, and they ask me if I posted the mesaage on tripadvisor, turns out this couple were the same couplw from where I come from

Sat in a bar in turkey (this was around 10 days ago), teenage daughter went to ask for more ice in her drink and got talking to the bar owner...he asked where are you from, she told him. He said 'ah, near so and so' and then proceded to name areas of our town, using the more-local and non-offical names. He then said do you know 'so and so' place and it was where we used to live (an hour away from where we are now).

After talking for several hours, we also found out that his wife had recently left her job - and my daughter took her place!