Scrolling through Instagram, photos of friends travelling Australia filled my screen. Seeing them posing in the outback and on sandy beaches, I felt inspired.
I have to go, I thought, filled with wanderlust.
A vet nurse in the UK, I applied for and was offered a job at Melbourne Uni’s vet centre in September 2018.
I couldn’t refuse!
‘This is the perfect opportunity,’ I beamed to my parents, Mark, then 53, and Lisa, 51, and my little brother Richard, 19.
‘We already miss you, love,’ Mum said, wrapping me
