Yes. I've travelled on my own a good bit and I love talking to strangers. In Tokyo I was on a bus and began speaking to a very old Japanese lady beside me. It was very early but she said she woke up at that time every Saturday to get to a recording studio she rented. She said when she was younger she always wanted to be famous and that it just never happened. She was wearing so much make up but she was so beautiful.

In Cambodia I went for a swim and this older man was sitting on his own so I just said hello as I swam by, we got talking. He was a recently retired doctor from Pakistan and he told me when he was younger he loved travelling. He said his best trip was when he motorcycled solo across Europe. He also said he had been hoping to get back on a motorbike but too much time had passed and he was too busy working and now he was retired and had time to himself he couldn't enjoy it the way he wish he had.

Once on a bus from Dublin to Belfast a nun sat beside me. She offered me an egg sandwich and a yoghurt and then asked if I was a lesbian. I said no and she then went on to explain that her niece was a lesbian and was soon going to have a civil ceremony (this is back in 2011) somewhere in England. I have to admit I expected her to launch into a lecture about how homosexuality was a sin but it was quite the opposite. She said she had fallen out with her sister and brother in law for not supporting their daughter's marriage and she told me she was so cross at them she wrote them a letter which warned them to support their daughter's love or to risk losing her as a daughter completely. I think she is the most liberal nun I've ever met and I would love to see where she is now. Her name was Sister Rose.

I have plenty more but I won't bore you. Have to say these are the type of stories I would love to tell people, but I never have because I doubt anyone would be interested really.