I waited 18 years to see the world – but that’s when I found true love

Janet Walker had always wanted to travel, dreamed of crossing the globe. She left school and got a job, started saving to follow her dream. But a course of antibiotics meant that she found herself a single mum at the age of 21.
So she put her dreams on hold and concentrated on bringing up her daughter. She concentrated on work and she still flicked through the travel magazines, still dreamed of distant shores.

At the age of 18 her daughter went to university. Janet seized her chance. She sold the house and gave up her job. She bought a one way ticket to Portugal and got a job as a waitress. It was heaven. After five months she returned to the UK for a family wedding and to see everyone. It was a brief visit before she jetted off to her next destination – Tenerife.
Her family and friends couldn’t’ believe how happy she was. But that was when she met Benny and fell head over heels in love two days before she was due to fly off again.
Janet didn’t know what to do, whether to get on the plane – this was her dream, but there was something about Benny – she’d never found true love in her life before.

Friends told her to go so she caught her flight. But Benny didn’t give up and they spent hundreds on calls. Just a week after she flew out she arrived at Bristol airport to be met by a man she’d only spent a few hours with.
It was a huge risk, but they married last summer in front of family and friends and Janet has settled back down in the UK.
Janet, who’s 45, said: “I’ve spent my whole life dreaming of travelling and when I got the chance I didn’t go – all because I finally found Mr Right.”