An unexpected find in Barcelona

Sometimes while travelling it's the unexpected things that stand out most.  When I was in Spain in 2009, I stopped inside a mall in Barcelona to pick up a few things in a department store.  While waiting for a clerk at one of the counters, I wandered over to some framed photographs on a nearby wall.  It was some sort of photography contest and looked interesting.  One of the first photos I looked at felt instantly familiar and really struck a chord with me; it looked like my hometown of Trail, Canada, a smelter town with a population of 8000 people.  I thought: "That's strange, there's a town in Spain that looks like Trail".  Then I looked closer and thought: "Wow, the resemblance is remarkable".  About a second later, I decided there's no way it could not be my hometown.  And indeed it was Trail.  An elderly man from Trail, named Thomas Gardiner, had entered photos into the contest halfway across the world in Spain, and had been chosen as a finalist.  What a strange coincidence it was.  It made my head spin a little bit.  It made me nostalgic and homesick, and made the world feel small but also strangely interconnected.