[QUOTE 3540416, member: 9609"]how awful, go away on holiday and bump into someone from work - could be worse, you could be on a nudist beach[/QUOTE]
When we are trying to cycle around the world, I was standing outside the tourist information office in Tallinn worth the bikes when an English couple came over to talk to us. He had been an engineer and was interested in the bikes wanting to know how far we had come... Usually stuff. By then we had been on the road for 6-7 months. The more we talked the more we realised he and my husband had worked for the same company... It turned out he had worked on the same floor of the same office block as my husband, lived within 4 miles of us and he had also taken voluntary redundancy just a year earlier. They were touring the world by cruise ship, we were (trying to) doing it by bike.