After recovering from a health scare in 2004, Liz decided to spend some time travelling the world. “Doctors discovered a tumour in my appendix,” she says. “I was working in healthcare community development in Ireland but decided I needed a sabbatical.”
By January 2006, she had been in Sydney, Australia, for several months, when she took a trip to the city’s Botanical Gardens. “It was raining heavily and I was smiling as I hadn’t seen a drop in so long,” she says. “I saw this guy give me a huge smile back. I thought: ‘Oh God, I shouldn’t smile at a strange man.’”
