Helen and Phil Lisle didn’t want to be the kind of people who missed their chance at a new life, so they moved to Singapore, before discovering that Sydney suited them perfectly. Words Jane RileyFirst Singapore, now Sydney, Australia. It’s all a far cry from Cramlington, near Newcastle, where Helen and Phil Lisle started their journey around the world nine years ago.
“We got the travel bug,” says Helen, “and it wouldn’t go away and we knew we didn’t want to be the sort of people who kept talking about doing something but never acted on their impulses.”
The couple were each born, went to the same school and lived with their families just around the corner from one another. While they’d been on European holidays before they weren’t, by their own admission, “worldly”.
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