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Published: October 25th 2012
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I'm writing about a trip to Europe that I did more than 5 years ago, so it's mostly about anecdotes that I remember about this trip. The previous post was about Paris.
In the afternoon of Wednesday 20th of December I said goodbye to Paris, hopped on a train in the Gare du Nord train station and crossed the English Channel to arrive at the Waterloo train station, where I was going to be...
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Home and Away
Bob Carlsen
Six degrees of separation...
the more you travel the more common such coincidences become. I spent 11 years working at NATO in Brussels so had colleagues/friends from all over Europe. After I returned to the States, one day years later I was browsing for travel books and I heard a Norwegian couple in the next aisle over. I, of course, had to introduce myself being of Norwegian ancestry. They asked I had visited Norway and had any relatives or friends there. I told them I had visited Norway many times and dear friends named Erling and Vigdis. They said they had picked up Erling and Vigdis earlier that day, and he would be the Norwegian Defense Representative to the US for the next three years. I called Erling at the Embassy about 10 minutes into his new job...he was very surprised to hear my voice and asked if I worked for the CIA...I didn't...just one of those 6 degree of separation moments. He ended up spending five years in DC and attended my retirement ceremony. This is just one of many stories I could tell. Anyway, it sounds like you are a networker as described in Malcolm Gladwell's book "Tipping Point." It's good to meet a fellow networker.