19 SEPTEMBER 2021 I had the pleasure of landing in Budapest in the middle of the night, it was cool on my skin after having slept the 2 hour flight from Paris, passed out against the window snoring. I was anything but refreshed, I looked like I needed a good shower and some clean clothes and felt like it too. I

Born and raised in Sydney, Australia into a working class family who didn't have the money nor opportunity to travel, my upbringing was dysfunctional in the modern sense of the word. Despite this I remained confident that I was going to be independent and would forge my own path going on to university and competitive swimming which balanced me and