After many years living in the Isle of Man, Andrew was ready to start a new adventure. “In 2007, I was working for an insurance company and I accepted a two-year placement in Hong Kong,” he says. Shortly before he left, he began emailing Darcy, a company client based in Tokyo. “I’d only just moved to Japan,” she says. “I was raised in Venezuela but when the opportunity came up to go to Asia, it seemed like a fun change. I worked for a financial planning company and spoke to Andrew regularly by email for work.”
They emailed each other professionally for two years, before one of Darcy’s colleagues suggested she give him a call. “She told me he had the sexiest voice and suddenly I was really curious,” she says. “He did have a really nice voice and we started talking more on the phone.” Slowly, the conversation became more friendly, with the pair exchanging stories about their social lives. “I looked him up on LinkedIn and told him his picture there was really bad,” she laughs. “You couldn’t see it properly.”
