Six degrees of separation

Brightly colored bath houses at Brighton Beach in Melbourne. (How's that for some beaching alliteration?)

In Melbourne, I went to a dinner where a travel writer was speaking. The woman who greeted me at the door was another travel writer named Ali. In chatting, we discovered that she had written two articles for the in-flight magazine I used to work for while I was still the editor. Going futher still, it turns out she was a friend of Evan who wrote a monthly Travel department for me. They had both lived in Prague, which is where I met Evan.

Going one step further, the travel writer who was speaking was named Mark Dapin. He had just returned from a trip to Stockholm where he had interviewed Swedish author Stieg Larsson’s sambo, father and brother for an article.

It is such a small world. Sometimes, you don’t even need six degrees of separation to make a connection with someone thousands of miles from home.

Tagged as: An American living in Stockholm, an American traveling in Australia, Scanorama, Stieg Larsson millenium series, travel writing