When Sean Fallon met Fiona while teaching in Thailand, he fell fast and hard at a nightclub that served dinner. Then their ‘first date’ lasted six weeks

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In 2006 I left Liverpool and was backpacking around Thailand. I was 21 years old with a degree in English and, after a few months, a travelling acquaintance offered me a job teaching English in Chiang Mai. I thought, “Why not?”

During my second year there, our boss told us the school would be hosting a group of Australian teachers. I had never gotten around to finding an apartment and lived in a hotel, so it was decided that’s where they’d stay too.