Youth Hostel Best Friends for Life
You asked if anyone met any best friends while
backpacking in Europe.
In 1987, I was 23 and just landed at the youth hostel in
Cherbourg, France after crossing from England. Jim was from
Ottawa, Ontario and just landed at the hostel in Cherbourg after
crossing from Ireland. We both set our watches the wrong
direction after crossing and were at the hostel well before it
opened. We became fast friends, had to sleep outside the
hostel that 1st night because we arrived 5 minutes after curfew
and the proprietary wouldn't let us in.
We separated for three weeks and met up (as we planned) at a youth
hostel in Florence so that we could travel to Samos, Greece. To
make a long story short, Jim, and I stayed on this Greek island
for 10 days. We met two Dutch women at a restaurant on the
beach. Two years later I flew to Jim's and Rita's wedding in
Haarlem, Holland. Jim and Rita have since moved to Ottawa, have
2 bilingual children and we have gone on vacation or
visited each other's home every year since then.
Michael
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