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Hello and welcome to the series that hears from those who've been swept up in a moment,

seen the world around them shift and ended up in a different place altogether.

That certainly happened with today's guest. Will Darby left school

to travel more than 9,000 miles and see what life was like on the other side of the globe.

Hello, Will. Thanks so much for coming in. Tell me first about growing up. You lived on a farm

in Norfolk. What was your childhood like? Was it hard work? It normally is on a farm.

I just remember it was being great fun. Growing up on a farm. It was a strawberry farm. So I grew up with my two

sisters there. I couldn't ask for more, really. Had a great time. And school? When I was 13,

I went off to boarding school and was there for five years. It was a fantastic place to

be. I did fine at school, but I was never that interested in taking a subject on to study at

university or anything like that. All I wanted to do was go travelling, so I was always daydreaming a bit.

You were the one looking out the window, thinking about far, far, long places.

Fraid so. Not the city. Yeah, yeah, I Yeah, yeah. Where they might have expected you to go.

Yeah, that's probably what they were hoping. A lot of my friends ended up, you know, going to the city and that sort of thing, which, you know, has its appeal, but not for me at that time.

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