Isn’t it interesting how friendships are formed? You can meet a perfect stranger (or nearly stranger) and within days you are friends for life. I love how that works. 🙂 And although it hasn’t happened often in my life, it happened twice during my 2007 summer in Europe. While planning my European adventure, I was given the names of various “friends of friends” who lived over there. Now, I’m typically not a person who relishes meeting new people, or at least spending extensive time with people I don’t know. But knowing that I was going to be traveling through lands unknown (to me), surrounded by people unknown (to me) for ten weeks, I thought it might be comforting to meet up with the occasional…