Travelling truly connects you to so many people and with the influence of social media it keeps you connected long after your travels have ended.

As technology grows, our world seems to shrink and Facebook makes our world even smaller.

There are two specific moments in my life when technology and travel have blown my mind.

ONE:

I met a guy while travelling through the Scottish Highlands, the next week I went away to Paris and he went away to Ireland. The week after we were camping our way through Sicily together. Our random camping adventure lasted a whole month before we decided to head to Rome. Whilst sitting on Facebook our conversation followed something like this:

Olivia: Hey, let’s go to Rome, one of my friends that I went to primary school with lives there.

Alex: Sounds good, one of my friends lives in Rome too, her name is Eleanor.

Olivia: No way, that’s so strange. MY friends name is Eleanor too!

Alex: Weird.

Olivia: What’s her surname?

Alex: (insert surname)

Olivia: What the fook? That’s my Eleanor!! How do you know her?

Alex: Oh one of my friends met her while travelling and she stayed with us in Edinburgh.

Olivia: *MIND BLOWN*

Both: *Check Facebook to confirm that it is in fact the same one and we are mutual friends.

We then traveled to Rome and caught up with her and had some really fun, drunken, food coma type days before flying back to Edinburgh.

TWO:

It was this morning and my Whatsapp started going off. It was my friend Harry. He’s just moved to Sydney on a year long Visa.

Harry: I’m in Bar100 and Matt (insert surname) has just seen me. Asked me if I knew Olivia? Says he knew you when you were kids.

Olivia: What the fook? Matt with tattoos?

Harry:

(sends picture of my childhood friend) Hahaha

Olivia: OMG this is so weird how did he know you?

Harry: From Facebook, recognised me from photos and that status when you called me a shit.

Olivia: This is so random, I feel like an international celebrity, people all over the world know me.

Olivia: *MIND BLOWN

( By the way, this is the same Matt that was in my Kiss post)

I love that these little random things happen because I decided to start travelling and see the world and I love it when those worlds collide unexpectedly.

Has anybody else had a similar mind blowing travel/technology experience??