I was on a holiday in the Cinque Terre in Italy with my wife a few years ago. Because of a rainy day we decided to take a train to Genua and visit some museums. At the maritime museum I randomly met an Italian coworker/coauthor from my research institute in Germany, who was visiting his family in his hometown with his wife.
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My now partner for more than 15 years both met face to face (online dating worked for me) in a smallish town in Portugal for the first time (she was living in the UK, I in Germany) and on the first evening we both met former clasmates of ours that we hadn't seen for years, it was kinda wild.
Small world ia a scam! When I was on vacation in London my father and I heard the "fact" on the tourist bus that you couldn't be on Picadilly Circus more than 43 minutes or so before meeting someone you know. We sat there for over an hour and didn't see anyone.
But then again, we were at an airfield for a pilot meeting earlier during that vacation. And it turned out that the guy who owned that airfield was stationed in Germany at the same town and at the same time my father lived there as a child.
Move out west to BC from Ontario. My new doctor had same last name as my boss in Ontario, so I'm like do you know any "blah blah" in ontario? He says yeah that's my dad.