‘A life worth living’: bereaved mother and daughter set off on year-long drive across Africa

Three years ago, after Jeroen’s inquest, Nadja and Fleur spent six months travelling around south-east Asia, as she and Jeroen had dreamed of doing. Photograph: Ben Quinton/The Guardian

Each journey of bereavement is different, and few young, widowed mothers might pack their life into a Land Rover Defender and set off with a young daughter to drive through Africa for a year.

Six years after her husband was fatally stabbed on their north London doorstep by a stranger in the grip of psychosis 11 days after she gave birth to their daughter, Fleur, Nadja Ensink-Teich sets off for Cape Town next week to do just that.