Key Points
I was 24 when I started dating my now husband, and he was 46.At first people would ask him if I was his daughter.We've been together for 20 years and have tons of things in common...
With a large age gap, our relationship did raise a few eyebrows, particularly in those early years..
We spent our first year together living in a remote ski resort in Switzerland, where we worked in local hotels, dabbled with mountaineering, attempting unsuccessfully to climb the Mnch, the middle peak of an iconic trio of mountains that dominated the view from our then home in the Bernese Oberland...
When the work in Switzerland dried up, we returned to south Manchester for a while, only to head off traveling again less than a year later in an old Transit van, which we had converted into a campervan..
We spent the next nine years renovating the farmhouse and selling secondhand items on the local "rastros" car boot sales to earn a living..
