2234“Quite a few people told me this," says Laurel. "The reason was I’d met this boy on a vacation, and nobody thought the relationship was going to last, let alone really, really last. It came from a good place, they were concerned about me.

”Turned out they didn’t need to be. I ended up marrying that boy, so I don’t feel like such an idiot after all.”

Laurel runs the Monkeys and Mountains travel blog. Taken in Rotterdam, Holland, during the Travel Bloggers Unite conference.