Pick Me Up!

SNAKES AND LADDERS

As rays of early morning sunlight streamed in through the camper van window, I blinked awake.

‘Morning,’ my fiancé Ben,29, smiled. ‘I’ve made coffee.’ Heading out of the front door, we sat down on two camping chairs and watched the sun rise together.

It had become a ritual. Travelling around Australia in a camper van had always been a bucket list dream for us – so in December last year, we decided to go for it.

Saying goodbye to our families, we left our lives in Hereford behind and bought oneway tickets to the land down under.

We watched the sun rise

The dangerous wildlife made me a bit nervous, but not

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