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Daily Mirror
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Holly Mei-Yu Stafford

Couple quit the rat race and take £125k pay cut to travel the UK in a canal boat

A couple ditched their high-flying jobs to live on a narrowboat with their one-year-old and travel the country.

Joanna and Victor Gould, both 34, left their corporate jobs in favour of ''living life on their own terms'' and travelling the UK in their humble narrowboat.

The couple - who met in April 2015 - were working as freelance TV editors in London racking up 80-hour weeks, but swapped their corporate jobs to for a slower pace of life on the water.

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