2207“I’d just finished my job, and I had an interview with this guy for another position within the same company. I was also thinking about going travelling at the time. We sat down for coffee and he was like ‘You’re really great, you’re really confident” – then he told me this.

”I didn’t understand why he was so against it, but he seemed to think that if I did that, it would ruin my career. He was absolutely, 100% wrong. I went travelling, I met my boyfriend who I now live with in the first two days of my trip.” She explains in her audio commentary just what happened next.

Ashley runs the Amsterdam Blog. Taken in Rotterdam, Holland, during the Travel Bloggers Unite conference.