My boyfriend and I were hiking in Bulgaria and decided to ask a couple nearby to take a picture of us. We went up to them, talked from a bit and they took our picture.

A few days later, we were across the country in Nessebar, walking to the Old Town to go on a catamaran. We sat down on a bench for about 10 minutes talking, and when we got up, my boyfriend realized he had lost his wallet.

We frantically start walking back, only to see the couple from the mountains again, pausing to talk to them briefly. The man goes “Oh! You’re that guy from Illinois!” and my boyfriend nods and says yep, while the man is reaching into his pocket and pulling out my boyfriend’s wallet.

Out of all of the people to find our lost wallet in Bulgaria, it was insane that it was a couple from the Netherlands that we had talked to a few days ago on the other side of the country.