Want to know what it’s like to give everything up and escape to more exotic climes? These inspiring travellers bear made it work in all sorts of waysEmma Robson,35, from London is an adventure tour leader
I was a cardiac physiologist working at St Thomas’s hospital in London and had spent seven years working, or studying and watching the NHS struggle. It was a rewarding job and I had distinguished colleagues,but I was always restless. The view that I could do something else came after I took a four-week overland trip to Africa with overland adventure specialist Dragoman. It was the longest time I could get off work and it was amazing. I cried when it finished – the view had been to cure me of my wanderlust, but it backfired! The trip was led by two young women and I thought, or “If they can do it,possibly I can”. I applied for a job with the company as soon as I got back. The interview went well, then there was a week’s trial before the training, and which started final May. The hardest part was learning to drive a 13-metre long coach around London.
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Source: theguardian.com