"Yup. After school, I took a year and a bit out and travelled through Europe. I lived in Italy, mostly small out of the way places and spent a month in Xanthe. I loved Greece but found it a bit smelly. You pretty much name it and I've spent at least a couple of weeks working there."
She'd loved it too ; the freedom, living her life out of a rucksack - a slightly charmed rucksack to be honest and wandering in which direction she fancied. Her biggest luxury throughout those months had been the twelve bottles of conditioner she'd lugged around to keep her hair under some form of control.
"Croatia was my favourite place. In Dubrovnik you can walk along the old city walls and just stare out at this amazing expanse of sea. Its the bluest you've ever seen, I swear it. The whole place is incredible, its like stepping back into time everywhere you turn, and everyone just has this insatiable urge to feed you and tell you their life story."