twenty years.
on talking to this other cousin they got onto the subject of travel and holidays and she mentioned how she had been to the canary islands that year. my wife told her that we had also been to the canary islands that year.
they then compared notes. it seems we - my wife and i - were in the islands at exactly the same time as this cousin, but there was more to it than this.
we were actually in hotels next to each other, at the same time, and visited many similar places, probably on the same days. the cousin even had a drink or two in our hotel bar.
somehow 