I have learned...

...that the chances of:

- walking into a bar on my first day in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, sitting down in the only empty chair and finding that the person sitting next to me is the country's only Icelandic resident: >0.

- that person sharing the rarer of my two given names: >0.

- going into the far northern reaches of Ethiopia, travelling over 100 km on gravel roads and mountain paths towards a 1600 year old monestary only accessible by climbing a 15 meter sheer rockface with the aid of rope of wound goat skin, running into the only two other white men to have visited in the preceding 48 hours and finding they are also my countrymen: >0.

- two people in my London Business School study group of five independently making the life altering decision to move from London to Dubai and starting work there on the same day: >0, apparently.

I should be playing the lottery.