Ever meet someone abroad and keep in touch?
Oct 16th, 2004, 04:07 PM
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Ever meet someone abroad and keep in touch?
Have any of you ever met someone while abroad and kept in touch?
My parents laugh at me cause I have friends from all over Europe, Costa Rica and Australia. I just think it makes things more interesting, and to truly know a place is to know the people!
My parents laugh at me cause I have friends from all over Europe, Costa Rica and Australia. I just think it makes things more interesting, and to truly know a place is to know the people!
Oct 16th, 2004, 04:11 PM
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We used to go to the island of St Martin and the first year there made friends with an owner of a bistro and his wife. They also lived in Nice, France. We kept in touch and saw them each time we went back.
We have friends who lived in NYC for a while back in the late 70s who moved back to LOndon and we are still friends, we visit one another and our children visit..these are special friendships when there is so much distance between you.
We have friends who lived in NYC for a while back in the late 70s who moved back to LOndon and we are still friends, we visit one another and our children visit..these are special friendships when there is so much distance between you.
Oct 16th, 2004, 04:16 PM
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This is where edit would be helpful... while we met via Fodors, we did meet up -- most recently Kavey and I met in Cape Town, SA. (We'd previously gotten together in London). And there was a meeting in Paris in 2002.
Oct 16th, 2004, 04:18 PM
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Yes, I have. Met several Italian couples at a surprise birthday party held for me in Italy. The host and hostess had invited many of their friends that I had not met until that evening.
Some have become very good friends too, we "clicked" from the time we were introduced. And as most of you know, it does not matter which country it is, basically all have the same joys, frustrations and feelings. I feel very blessed. As Scarlett stated; "special friendships when there is so much distance between you".
Some have become very good friends too, we "clicked" from the time we were introduced. And as most of you know, it does not matter which country it is, basically all have the same joys, frustrations and feelings. I feel very blessed. As Scarlett stated; "special friendships when there is so much distance between you".
Oct 16th, 2004, 04:19 PM
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I got to know a couple from San Francisco, and another from Oslo, Norway, during a cruise on the Black Sea.
We live quite far from each other, since I'm in South America, but we keep in touch by e-mails, and have met again in Paris, and also in the South of France.
We live quite far from each other, since I'm in South America, but we keep in touch by e-mails, and have met again in Paris, and also in the South of France.
Oct 16th, 2004, 04:22 PM
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Yep, in fact, we just spent a few days in Paris with a woman from Cuneo, Italy, who we met in 2001 while on vacation in Moorea. I agree, the more friendships you develop while abroad, the more you realize how much we all have in common. That's a good thing to know in a shrinking world,
Oct 16th, 2004, 04:49 PM
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I have a circle of friends in London, and am in touch in one or the other of them regularly.
I also have 2 friends in Paris. I have stayed with one of them a couple of times.
There are several people in various parts of Italy that I am in close contact with and visit when I go there. In fact, some of my friendships there were formed here in NY years ago, when I shared a loft with a Bolognese woman and a young Roman man who is now a journalist, so I met many others socially.
Sometimes we would have various visitors from Italy as houseguests, and then when I went to Italy for a three month stay, the favor was returned tenfold!.
I treasure these friendships very much, we've learned so much from each other, and my door is open to each of them always. For some reason, these bonds have stayed alive and keep blooming from year to year. And then came email, which makes it even easier!
I have met one or two people online, but it's not the same as finding each other in person.
I also have 2 friends in Paris. I have stayed with one of them a couple of times.
There are several people in various parts of Italy that I am in close contact with and visit when I go there. In fact, some of my friendships there were formed here in NY years ago, when I shared a loft with a Bolognese woman and a young Roman man who is now a journalist, so I met many others socially.
Sometimes we would have various visitors from Italy as houseguests, and then when I went to Italy for a three month stay, the favor was returned tenfold!.
I treasure these friendships very much, we've learned so much from each other, and my door is open to each of them always. For some reason, these bonds have stayed alive and keep blooming from year to year. And then came email, which makes it even easier!
I have met one or two people online, but it's not the same as finding each other in person.
Oct 16th, 2004, 04:58 PM
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My best example is some friends from Berlin. We met on one of the Greek island ferries when it sat in port all day because of weather. It finally sailed about 10 hours late, by which time we were fast friends.
They have visited us and we have visited them, and we celebrated the 20th anniversary of our friendship by meeting on Crete.
They have visited us and we have visited them, and we celebrated the 20th anniversary of our friendship by meeting on Crete.
Oct 16th, 2004, 05:07 PM
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While stationed on Greeland, I (a Navy man) shared a duty station with a Danish naval radioman. That was in 1951.
Ever since, we have corresponded, visited each other's homes, know all each other's family members, exchange Christmas gifts, and correspond now by email. On holiday travels, he and his wife or I and my wife send postcards.
Fifty-three years -- it hardly seems possible.
Ever since, we have corresponded, visited each other's homes, know all each other's family members, exchange Christmas gifts, and correspond now by email. On holiday travels, he and his wife or I and my wife send postcards.
Fifty-three years -- it hardly seems possible.
Oct 16th, 2004, 07:34 PM
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USNR, that is great. I had a relative who was stationed in the Auluetin (sp?) Islands during WWII. My uncle had always been a shy but loving kind of fellow. I adored him. His friends were friends from his school years.
Than off into the Army and the Auletin Islands (I do wish I knew if I was spelling this correctly).
He made friends there that he kept in touch with, families visited back and forth etc. until the day he died.
For such a shy fellow he sure had a "world" of friends.
Than off into the Army and the Auletin Islands (I do wish I knew if I was spelling this correctly).
He made friends there that he kept in touch with, families visited back and forth etc. until the day he died.
For such a shy fellow he sure had a "world" of friends.
Oct 16th, 2004, 07:55 PM
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We made wonderful friends near Inverness, Scotland: husband, wife, and son. Through them we met the husband's cousin and stayed in touch after he died, following the death of his wife. We still correspond with the cousin's son and his wife, and they visited us in California. Someday we'll get back to Somerset to visit them!
Oct 16th, 2004, 07:56 PM
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Thanks USNR, did not think that I had the spelling correct. Glad you knew where I meant.
My uncle (I was not suppose to hear as I was just a litte girl) was home on leave and told family memebers that it was so frigid cold outside they were told not to do that without permission and proper clothing. A cook did, evidently without proper clothing and actually froze to death in a manner of minutes. I think I was about 3 or so when I overheard this story. Brrrrr.
My uncle (I was not suppose to hear as I was just a litte girl) was home on leave and told family memebers that it was so frigid cold outside they were told not to do that without permission and proper clothing. A cook did, evidently without proper clothing and actually froze to death in a manner of minutes. I think I was about 3 or so when I overheard this story. Brrrrr.
Oct 16th, 2004, 09:30 PM
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Well, in a way, yes. It's one of those moments you never imagined. It was 1991 and my husband and I were on our initial visit to Paris. We were walking in the Tuileries by the area where it's got walking paths near some trees. This jogger kept jogging around us that quite a bit which we obviously noticed. Then after a while he came up to us and asked us if we're from the Philippines. My husband is from there. The jogger had a T-shirt with a France/Philippines church theme printed on it. He then introduced himself as the priest, Fr. Philippe, from St. Germain l'Auxerrois and told us that he visits the Philippines doing churchwork. He was interested in meeting anyone from there. We kept in touch a bit by sending Xmas cards for a couple of years. We never had time to look him up on our subsequent trips. Maybe we should do that next trip if he is still there.
