As rays of bright early morning sunlight streamed in through the van window, I blinked awake.
‘Morning,’ my fiancé Ben, now 30, 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 campervan had always been a bucket list dream for us – so in December 2022, we decided to go for it.
Saying goodbye to our families, we left our lives in Hereford behind and bought two one-way tickets to the land down under.
The dangerous wildlife made me a bit nervous, but not enough to put me off.